For close to a century, physicists have pursued a way to unite gravity with quantum mechanics. Known as quantum gravity, this ...

NASA's latest space telescope may up-end our entire model of the cosmos by taking a closer look at a shadowy phenomenon ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Astronomers have to use indirect evidence, like the explosions of Type Ia supernovae, to investigate the impacts of dark energy.

The universe is known to be expanding at an accelerating rate. Physicists typically attribute this acceleration to dark ...

Asharq Al Awsat NASA is preparing to launch its next flagship space observatory, one that scientists plan to use to investigate some of the universe's biggest mysteries including dark energy and dark ...

A recent paper claimed that dark energy might not exist. But new research suggests this conclusion was premature.

A slice of the largest 3D map of the universe ever made, depicting 600,000 galaxies across the cosmos—less than 0.1 percent of the map's total. Earth is at the tip in the lower center, and the most ...

An international collaboration of scientists has created the largest 3D map of our universe to date based on the first results from the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI). It’s an impressive ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Physicists have deduced subtle hints that the mysterious “dark” energy that drives the universe to expand faster and faster may be ...

The Hobby-Eberly Telescope Dark Energy Experiment (HETDEX) is looking to create one of the largest maps of the universe by creating a catalog of Lyman-alpha-emitting galaxies. These galaxies, which ...