Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Dark energy is one of the most mysterious concepts in all of the cosmos. We know very little about what it is but it just might ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. DESI has made the largest 3D map of our universe. The Earth is at the central vertex, and every ...

A team of cosmologists in China has introduced a mathematical framework that investigates two of the deepest mysteries in ...

For a quarter century, cosmology has leaned on one framework to explain how the universe expands. Known as the ΛCDM model, it assumes about 70 percent of the cosmos is filled with an unseen force ...

For centuries, humanity has pondered the ultimate fate of the universe. From theories of infinite expansion to the concept of a cosmic “big crunch,” scientists have long sought to understand how the ...

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 ...

Theoretical physicists Joao Magueijo and Lee Smolin have proposed that time is not merely a backdrop against which the universe unfolds but a quantum variable that directly shapes cosmic expansion.

A trio of physicists play with the math that describes Bose Einstein condensates. Hidden down behind the BEC's couch, they found a fake cosmological constant that they could use to show why our ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: A new paper adjusts an equation that defines our universe in response to recent new data. The cosmological constant, which describes how our universe ...

Dark energy—the term used to describe whatever is causing the universe to expand at an increasing rate—is one of the universe’s greatest mysteries. The widely accepted theory at the present moment ...

Scientists know very little about the mysterious force dubbed “Dark Energy” that seems to be quickening the expansion of the universe but, according to LSU Physics and Astronomy Associate Professor ...