"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 ...

Our universe does host life, but another one might be even better suited for life. Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: Researchers are studying how hospitable our universe is to ...

Most of the universe is made of dark matter and dark energy, yet scientists still don’t know what either one is. New ultra-sensitive detectors are being built to spot incredibly rare particle ...

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

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 ...

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

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.

This idea is called the big bang model—which is an unfortunate name because it brings to mind a cosmos expanding like an ...