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

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

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 ...

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

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

As the Dark Energy Survey (DES) releases its final results, we caught up with two physicists who've been involved in the ...

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 ...

Neutrino particles have extremely small masses, yet there are so many of them that they carve out the large-scale structure ...

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.

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

Astronomers use the term dark energy to refer to energy in the universe that is unaccounted for by ordinary matter but ...