Thus, you could say that Space.com and dark energy have grown up together — and during this growth, we also charted the progress of its older dark universe sibling, dark matter, the birth of ...

The fate of the Universe might not be as dark and empty as cosmologists have long suspected. That’s one potential implication emerging from an innovative project that has produced some of the ...

Space JWST has seen building blocks of life in a dark, cold cloud in space. The James Webb Space Telescope has observed a frigid cloud of dust and gas where stars are forming, and it found frozen ...

Our current cosmological model—known as lambda cold dark matter, or ΛCDM—relies on hypothesized dark energy to explain the accelerating expansion of the universe. However, one competing ...

The analysis, which looked at nearly 15 million galaxies and quasars spanning 11 billion years of cosmic time, found that dark energy — the presumed-to-be constant force driving the accelerating ...

Although temperatures plummet on the dark side of the moon and the shadowy craters of Pluto, those locales look balmy compared with the Boomerang Nebula. About 5,000 light-years away, this star system ...

That means that dark energy seems to be a property of space itself, which is why it is also sometimes known as the energy of the vacuum. “If you get more space, you get more dark energy.

Cosmologist Katie Mack breaks down what the latest findings about dark energy mean for our universe’s future. Either way, it won’t be happy. Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI ...