Rolf Landauer showed that "information is physical" with every bit equivalent to a small amount of energy proportional to ...

The invisible majority consists of 27 percent dark matter and 68 percent dark energy. Both of them are mysteries. Dark matter is thought to be responsible for sculpting the glowing sheets and ...

“Dark energy” is a term scientists use to refer to whatever is causing the universe to expand faster over time. We don’t know exactly what dark energy is—no one has ever directly seen or measured ...

Levi is the director for the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument, DESI, which produced the new map. The instrument consists of 5,000 tiny robots attached to a telescope in Arizona that collects ...

A better understanding of type Ia supernovas could help solve the mystery of dark energy — the strange force that is causing the universe to expand at accelerating rates. That's because ...

The growing distances between them hinted at forces far beyond what we can see—dark energy and dark matter. As these supernovae dimmed over time, the universe’s expansion became undeniable.

Europe’s Euclid Space Telescope Is Launching a New Era in Studies of the ‘Dark Universe’ The Euclid mission will probe dark energy and dark matter like never before, setting the stage for an ...