For more than a century, physics has been built on two great theories. Einstein's general relativity explains gravity as the ...

Dark energy—the term used to describe whatever is causing the universe to expand at an increasing rate—is one of the universe ...

For a quarter century, cosmology has leaned on one framework to explain how the universe expands. Known as the ΛCDM model, it ...

"We've been waiting to reach this point for a long time." Using the largest catalog of exploding white dwarf vampire stars ever gathered has provided further evidence that dark energy, the mysterious ...

In a new study, scientists began pondering a pretty wild question: What if black holes can convert dead star matter into dark energy, the mystery force driving the acceleration of the expansion of the ...

Dark energy, the mysterious force driving the accelerated expansion of the universe, has puzzled scientists since its discovery in 1998. Despite its elusive nature, dark energy is believed to ...

A new paper published in Physical Review D in September, by Frieman and Anowar Shajib, a NASA Hubble Fellowship Program Einstein Fellow in Astronomy and Astrophysics, combines current data from a ...

Astronomers are using radio pulses from space to find missing baryonic matter and learn about supermassive black holes, ...

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The "dark universe detective" space telescope Euclid has discovered its first Einstein ring in the process, learning about dark matter at the heart of a distant galaxy.