A groundbreaking new dataset containing information on 18.7 million celestial objects —the largest ever assembled—is now accessible to researchers, paving the way toward solving some of the universe’s ...

Astronomers have unveiled stunning new images of the universe in its infancy, offering a glimpse into the earliest moments ...

Dark energy, in the form of a cosmological constant (Λ), has been seen as responsible for the accelerating expansion of space ...

A team of researchers from the Atacama Cosmology Telescope (ACT) has recently published the most detailed images to date of ...

The new images, to be presented at an upcoming meeting of the American Physical Society, date back to when the universe was ...

The Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) is mapping millions of celestial objects to better understand dark energy—the ...

The fate of the universe hinges on the balance between matter and dark energy: the fundamental ingredient that drives its ...

For decades, astronomers have relied on Einstein’s theory of relativity to explain the expansion of the universe, assuming ...

New results from the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) suggest that the unknown force accelerating the expansion of ...

According to the new DESI numbers, dark energy may be changing over time—either causing the universe’s expansion to ...

If our 13.8 billion-year-old cosmos could be considered middle-aged, researchers note these new images captured around its ...

The findings suggest that dark energy is dynamic and changes over time, and that it used to be stronger in the early stages of the universe but is weaker now. That’s particularly odd because most ...