Now, researchers in Switzerland and the U.K. have homed in on one particular aspect of this equation to contemplate how a ...

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

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

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

The most ambitious attempt to do so was the Dark Energy Survey (DES), an international collaboration that scanned a huge ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

The latest map, published Monday in the journal Nature Astronomy, includes information on new galaxy clusters and the strands ...

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

Dark energy—the term used to describe whatever is causing the universe to expand at an increasing rate—is one of the universe’s greatest mysteries. The most widely accepted theory currently suggests ...

From the fall of an apple to the glow of the farthest known star, gravity quietly choreographs almost everything that happens ...