“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 ...

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

Gravitational lensing often evokes images of a cosmic funhouse mirror: duplicated galaxies, dramatic arcs and distorted ...

and a force that repels gravity known as dark energy (70 percent). Scientists have not yet observed dark matter directly. It doesn't interact with baryonic matter and it's completely invisible to ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 Matter and Dark Energy make up 95% of the universe, yet they remain elusive, with no direct detection or universally accepted theoretical framework. New modelled data from the Dark Energy ...

We don't know what's making the universe expand faster and faster, but we've named it dark energy – and <b>New Scientist</b> has been on its trail from the beginning ...

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 ...