When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. An artistic celebration of the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) year-one data, showing ...

Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, or Berkeley Lab, researchers mapped nearly six million galaxies throughout the past 11 billion years of cosmic evolution using the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument, ...

The cosmos might be playing a different game than we thought. Scientists have spent decades believing our universe was ...

A new study casts doubt on the universe’s accelerating expansion, suggesting dark energy might be weakening over time.

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, but acting ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Distant, ancient galaxies are giving scientists more hints that a mysterious force called dark energy may not be what they thought. Astronomers know that the universe is being pushed ...

Dark energy—the term used to describe whatever is causing the universe to expand at an increasing rate—is one of the universe’s greatest mysteries. The most widely accepted theory currently suggests ...