A peer-reviewed paper published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters argues that black holes gain mass in step with the ...

The expansion of the universe is still accelerating under the influence of dark energy, despite recent claims to the contrary.

The universe has been expanding ever since the Big Bang almost 14 billion years ago, and astronomers believe a kind of invisible force called dark energy is making it accelerate faster. If the result ...

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 ...

Scientists have constructed the largest 3-D map of our universe to date, and it's come with a couple of interesting surprises. "So far, we're seeing basic agreement with our best model of the universe ...

Dark energy is a dynamic entity, rather than a matter-of-fact constant in the universe’s rapid unfurling, a team of scientists announced this week. The Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument, or DESI, ...

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 ...

Gravity, the force that attracts objects toward each other, is currently framed by Albert Einstein's theory of general ...

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 ...

Over ten years ago, the Dark Energy Survey (DES) began mapping the universe to find evidence that could help us understand the nature of the mysterious phenomenon known as dark energy. I’m one of more ...

In the 1960s, celebrated radio astronomer Frank Drake proposed his eponymous equation, which attempted to wrangle with the probability of finding extraterrestrial life — at least, the kind that we ...