A bold claim that the universe’s accelerating expansion was an illusion has been put to the test—and failed. Researchers ...
Dark energy has been a mysterious element of cosmological equation since it was proposed three decades ago, but new research ...
Nobel laureates Adam Riess and Brian Schmidt co-authored a June 2026 rebuttal correcting two errors in a 2025 South Korean ...
A slice of the largest 3D map of the universe ever made, depicting 600,000 galaxies across the cosmos—less than 0.1 percent of the map's total. Earth is at the tip in the lower center, and the most ...
A 2026 study claims to have debunked a 2025 study announcing dark energy doesn't exist. New study says the Universe is ...
The Hobby-Eberly Telescope Dark Energy Experiment (HETDEX) is looking to create one of the largest maps of the universe by creating a catalog of Lyman-alpha-emitting galaxies. These galaxies, which ...
Astronomers use the term dark energy to refer to energy in the universe that is unaccounted for by ordinary matter but necessary to explain cosmology. Astronomy, however, isn't the only field with ...
Distant, ancient galaxies are giving scientists more hints that a mysterious force called dark energy may not be what they thought.See an excerpt of an interview in the video aboveAstronomers know ...
The Andromeda galaxy is on a collision course with the Milky Way, and scientists are using that to study dark energy. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.