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 ...

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

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

To check these predictions, the DES had to combine all four of the methods of investigating dark energy: study of signals ...

“As a result, for the past four decades, most researchers have believed that dark matter must be cold when it is born in the primordial universe. Our recent results show that this is not the case; in ...

The Survey was conducted to get a better understanding of the mechanisms that drive the speeding up expansion of the universe ...

NEW YORK — Scientists are homing in on the nature of a mysterious force called dark energy, and nothing short of the fate of the universe hangs in the balance. The force is enormous — it makes up ...

The U.S. National Science Foundation Nicholas U. Mayall 4-meter Telescope at Kitt Peak National Observatory (KPNO), a Program of NSF NOIRLab, beneath streaking star ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - New data involving millions of galaxies and luminous galactic cores is providing fresh evidence that the enigmatic and invisible cosmic force called dark energy - responsible ...

For a quarter century, cosmology has leaned on one framework to explain how the universe expands. Known as the ΛCDM model, it assumes about 70 percent of the cosmos is filled with an unseen force ...