The Dark Energy Survey Collaboration collected information on hundreds of millions of galaxies across the universe using the ...

Dark energy may be the most mysterious substance ever proposed, but many scientists are certain it exists. Why?

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 ...

For a generation, cosmologists have treated dark energy as a fixed backdrop, a steady pressure stretching space faster and faster forever. Now a wave of new measurements suggests that this invisible ...

Researchers in Germany argue that a modified theory of gravity could explain universal expansion, removing dark energy from ...

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 ...

Last year, we reported on an exciting hint of new physics in the first data analysis results from the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI)—namely that the dark energy, rather than being ...

VALPARAISO | Valparaiso University's Department of Physics and Astronomy will host a lecture Friday by an astronomer who helped make one of the most startling scientific discoveries of the 20th ...

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The fate of the universe hinges on the balance between matter and dark energy: the fundamental ingredient that drives its accelerating expansion. New results from the Dark Energy Spectroscopic ...

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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 ...