Data on dark energy weakening over time may signal that if the trend continues it could eventually cause the universe to collapse, according to a new study. Mustapha Ishak-Boushaki, a physics ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." The Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) collaboration just dropped their first official data ...

For a quarter century, cosmology has rested on a simple but audacious idea: that a fixed “cosmological constant” drives the universe’s accelerating expansion. Now a new wave of data is forcing ...

Dark energy, a mysterious force that scientists believe is behind the accelerated expansion of the universe, is weakening — which could result in the universe over the course of billions of years ...

Last year, we reported on an exciting hint of new physics in the first data analysis results from the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI)—namely that the dark energy, rather than being ...

"The universe never ceases to amaze and surprise us." When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. New results from the Dark Energy ...

In an unprecedented step, researchers crafted a detailed model compatible with the universe’s accelerated expansion.

Researchers have presented new measurements that account for half of the universe’s hydrogen gas — which had previously been regarded as “missing” in cosmic scientific discourse. The study was ...