What we saw in the DESI experiments, and now strengthened by our South Pole Telescope observations, is that dark energy is ...

New evidence suggests the universe might not behave as expected, raising questions about the costs of being wrong.

Researchers unveiled their findings on March 19 as part of a massive new data release from the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument — DESI for short — which has been scanning the sky above the ...

Ever since, it's been thought of as a constant, immutable presence. Now, the latest observations from the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) indicate that dark energy has actually changed ...

The earliest light in the universe has been traveling across space since just after the Big Bang. Known as the cosmic ...

We know black hole mergers occur because we can detect the resulting gravitational waves. But when trying to piece together ...

Astronomers from the University of Cape Town (UCT) joined global celebrations to mark the first light images of the Legacy ...

Massbox delivers rapid chemical compositional analysis of virtually any solid material, from feedstock powders to fully ...

The first ever space telescope, the Orbiting Astronomical Observatory 2 (OAO-2), was launched into the low Earth orbit in ...

Jee compared dark matter to crystal-clear water in a pond, with pebbles as the galaxies. “You cannot see the water unless there is wind, which causes ripples. Those ripples distort the shapes of the ...

Machine learning can help tighten constraints on the overarchingFor almost as long as humans have existed, we have been trying to make sense of the cosmos. What started as philosophical musing has, ...