"These results from the Dark Energy Survey shine new light on our understanding of the universe and its expansion." ...

Our universe does host life, but another one might be even better suited for life. Here’s what you’ll learn when you read ...

Studying the dark energy in the universe requires the mapping of thousands of galaxies and detecting various patterns of the ...

The universe seems to be spinning, and that could explain what dark energy is and why it's weakening while revealing our ...

Dark energy remains one of the most stubborn puzzles in modern science. Despite decades of observation and increasingly ...

Dark energy is still one of the greatest cosmic mysteries. For all the time, money and telescopes that humanity has used to ...

To explain these observations, they proposed a new kind of energy that is responsible for driving the universe’s accelerated expansion: dark energy. Astrophysicists now believe dark energy makes up ...

The Dark Energy Survey Collaboration collected information on hundreds of millions of galaxies across the universe using the ...

The six-year Dark Energy Survey has released its full results, showing that two leading models of cosmology are equally valid — but both fail to explain one key observation.

For more than two decades, the standard model of cosmology has stood as a reliable guide to the universe. Known as Lambda Cold Dark Matter, or ΛCDM, it weaves together dark energy, dark matter, and ...

Dark energy was first identified in 1998, when observations of distant supernovae revealed that the expansion of the universe ...

Black holes are eaters of all things, even radiation. But what if their rapacious appetites had an unexpected side effect? A new study published in Physical Review Letters suggests that black holes ...