Dark energy is still one of the greatest cosmic mysteries. For all the time, money and telescopes that humanity has used to uncover its nature, scientists are still asking a fundamental question: What ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Astronomers have to use indirect evidence, like the explosions of Type Ia supernovae, to investigate the impacts of dark energy.

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Physicists have deduced subtle hints that the mysterious “dark” energy that drives the universe to expand faster and faster may be ...

An international group of more than 900 researchers studying the expansion of the universe presented their findings on Wednesday during the American Physical Society’s Global Physics Summit in Anaheim ...

Physicists have deduced subtle hints that the mysterious “dark” energy that drives the universe to expand faster and faster may be slightly weakening with time. It’s a finding that has the potential ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A render of a dark energy universe from NASA's Goddard Space Center. (Credit: NASA) Astronomers at the Center of Applied Space ...

New data further challenge the best scientific theory of the history and the structure of the universe. But a separate recent result reinforces it. Using the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument, or ...

Dark energy is one of those cosmological features that we are still learning about. While we can't see it directly, we can most famously observe its effects on the universe—primarily how it is causing ...

Dark energy, a mysterious force that scientists believe is behind the accelerated expansion of the universe, is weakening — which could result in the universe over the course of billions of years ...