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

The six-year Dark Energy Survey has released its full results, showing that two leading models of cosmology are equally valid ...

The accelerating expansion of the universe is usually explained by an invisible force known as dark energy. But a new study suggests this mysterious ingredient may not be necessary after all. Using an ...

Filippenko will discuss the discovery that the expansion of the universe is speeding up over time, a finding that led to the 2011 Nobel Prize in Physics. He will also discuss the Hubble tension, with ...

New research suggests that dark energy isn't needed to explain the acceleration in the expansion of the universe — instead suggesting giant voids in space are creating an illusion. When you purchase ...

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

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

The accelerating expansion of the universe could be explained by modifying general relativity so that gravity has mass – or so thinks a small group of physicists. Matthew Francis reports What lies ...

For the three astrophysicists who won the Nobel Prize in physics today (Oct. 4), it was only a matter of when, not if, they would get the prize, their peers said. Their discovery that the universe's ...

However, not everybody agrees with this widely accepted scientific consensus. In a controversial new paper, published in the journal Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, a team led by ...