What we saw in the DESI experiments, and now strengthened by our South Pole Telescope observations, is that dark energy is ...

Of this enormous slice of the universe's matter and energy budget, dark energy — the placeholder name for the force causing the expansion of the universe to accelerate — accounts for around 70 ...

Experts were running a test to see how some of the most mysterious singularities in the universe worked. They can change physics forever with the discovery.

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 ...

Brian Schmidt explains dark energy’s role in accelerating universe expansion, 1998 discovery’s impact, and urges students to ...

While there have been several models proposing an evolving dark energy, the idea of evolving dark matter hasn't been widely considered. The reason for this is twofold.

The 10-year survey is the primary mission of the Vera C. Rubin Observatory, located on a mountaintop at the edge of Chile’s ...

As the Vera C. Rubin Observatory surveys the night sky, astrophysicists expect to unlock the secrets of dark matter, dark ...

We may already have had our first-ever encounter with dark matter, according to researchers who say a mysteriously ...

Decades ago, astronomers estimated that “ordinary” matter (basically everything that isn’t dark matter or dark energy) makes ...

Of this enormous slice of the universe's matter and energy budget, dark energy — the placeholder name for the force causing the expansion of the universe to accelerate — accounts for around 70 ...