The mystery of dark matter—unseen, pervasive, and essential in standard cosmology—has loomed over physics for decades. In new ...

To check these predictions, the DES had to combine all four of the methods of investigating dark energy: study of signals ...

Dark energy remains one of the most stubborn puzzles in modern science. Despite decades of observation and increasingly ...

Studying the dark energy in the universe requires the mapping of thousands of galaxies and detecting various patterns of the ...

Dark energy is still one of the greatest cosmic mysteries. For all the time, money and telescopes that humanity has used to ...

The most difficult thing about learning the dark energy is that the dark matter does not present itself directly; it only ...

“As a result, for the past four decades, most researchers have believed that dark matter must be cold when it is born in the ...

The European Space Agency has released the first major batch of data from its “dark universe” telescope Euclid. What’s inside could change our understanding of dark matter and the expansion of the ...

To explain these observations, they proposed a new kind of energy that is responsible for driving the universe’s accelerated expansion: dark energy. Astrophysicists now believe dark energy makes up ...

It’s one of the most memorable moments of my career – and not in a good way. I was giving a talk to a room packed full of eminent astrophysicists, but there had been a bit of a childcare crisis, so ...

Scientists have discovered an incredible new "Einstein Ring"—a type of intergalactic mirage formed when a massive galaxy warps the fabric of spacetime like a colossal lens. The ring was spotted by the ...

Our universe is shrouded in mystery, with about 70 percent of it consisting of dark energy. The exact nature of dark energy remains a puzzle that, once solved, could unlock profound insights into the ...