Dark energy does not exist, some scientists have claimed – which could help get rid of one of the universe’s biggest mysteries. For a century, scientists have thought that the universe was ...

Scientists challenge the existence of dark energy. They suggest the universe's accelerating expansion is due to uneven gravitational effects on time. This new theory, called the "timescape" model ...

"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 ...

Dark energy and dark matter refers to the unseen energy and matter components of the Universe. Dark matter is invisible, non-baryonic matter hypothesized to explain phenomena including ...

It also raised the question of what was causing this acceleration. Cosmologists eventually decided that the expansion was being driven by a force they called dark energy and began to develop a ...

Dark energy is a mysterious force making the universe fly apart faster and faster. Its discovery came from one of the most unexpected results in the history of astronomy: in the late 1990s ...

Related: What we do - and don't - know about dark energy This result hinges on a ... of the universe), they can have ...

An international consortium of scientists studying dark energy said Tuesday their three-dimensional map of the universe over 11 billion years suggested the cosmos wasn't steadily expanding ...

The aim of the five-year programme is to shed light on Dark Energy - the mysterious force thought to drive an accelerated expansion of the Universe. The instrument effectively contains 5,000 mini ...

Levi is the director for the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument, DESI, which produced the new map. The instrument consists of 5,000 tiny robots attached to a telescope in Arizona that collects ...