Our current cosmological model—known as lambda cold dark matter, or ΛCDM—relies on hypothesized dark energy to explain the ...

By looking at light from distant exploding stars called supernovas, in 1998 astronomers discovered the universe isn't just ...

Dark matter is one of the most debated and intriguing missing puzzle pieces of modern physics – a mysterious form of energy ...

Scientists are challenging the existence of dark energy with a new model called "timescape," which suggests the Universe's ...

"Dark energy is a misidentification of variations in the kinetic energy of expansion, which is not uniform in a Universe as ...

NASA's latest warning suggests dark energy could lead the universe to a 'Big Freeze,' where expansion extinguishes light, ...

Scientists challenge the existence of dark energy. They suggest the universe's accelerating expansion is due to uneven gravitational effects on time.

Dark energy is one of the greatest mysteries of the universe. This mysterious force is thought to be accelerating the expansion of the cosmos. But a new study challenges this long-held belief.

Cosmologists have long wondered whether dark energy and the accelerating expansion of the universe is an illusion. Now the ...

A controversial new model is presenting challenges to the long-theorized existence of mysterious dark energy throughout our ...

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