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 ...

This late-time acceleration was discovered in 1998 by two teams of astronomers making distance measurements using supernovas ...

Dark energy does not exist, some scientists have claimed – which could help get rid of one of the universe’s biggest ...

The Dark Energy Camera (DECam) was originally built for the Dark Energy Survey (DES), an international collaboration that ...

Dec. 20, 2024 — One of the biggest mysteries in science -- dark energy -- doesn't actually exist, according to researchers looking to solve the riddle of how the Universe is expanding.

From mysterious dark matter to the radioactive decay of atomic nuclei, the past 12 months have reiterated just how strange ...

"Up to this year, most observations were consistent, with dark energy being the cosmological constant. Nonetheless, 2024 was full of hints pointing out this might not be the case." 2024 was a big ...

Galaxies are not islands in the cosmos. While globally the universe expands—driven by the mysterious "dark energy"—locally, galaxies cluster through gravitational interactions, forming the ...