On March 19, the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) collaboration shared its findings in multiple papers posted on arXiv and in a presentation at the American Physical Society's Global ...

Imagine a star powered not by nuclear fusion, but by one of the universe’s greatest mysteries—dark matter. Scientists have ...

"Our findings in DESI that the dark energy is evolving in time and is not the cosmological constant is probably the most important result about cosmic acceleration since its discovery in 1998 that ...

Is dark energy dead? The new findings aren't definitive. Astronomers say they need more data to overturn a theory that seemed to fit together so well.

Key Takeaways ・Scientists have used laser-excited thorium-229 to probe for ultralight dark matter, even without a fully built ...

Suppose, though, that dark energy had a different strength, making the universe's expansion accelerate either faster or slower. Sorini, along with John Peacock of the University of Edinburgh and ...

Dark energy is the placeholder name given to ... the DESI collaboration is preparing to begin additional analyses of the new dataset to extract even more findings as DESI itself ...

Cosmologist Katie Mack breaks down what the latest findings about dark energy mean for our universe’s future. Either way, it won’t be happy. Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI ...

If dark energy is weakening, as suggested by recent results, ... For w(z) greater than –1, the universe’s dark energy dilutes over time, consistent with DESI’s findings.

Space Dark energy bombshell sparks race to find a new model of the universe ‘Shocking’ results from a major astronomical study have raised doubts about the standard model of cosmology, forcing ...

A sneak preview of the first batch of deep space imagery from the new Vera C. Rubin Observatory in Chile made its way to news sites and social media last week, followed by a livestream event. "(The ...

But they can't see it and they don't know where it comes from, so they call it dark energy.It is so vast it is thought to make up nearly 70% of the universe — while ordinary matter, like all the ...