The largest map of the cosmos hints that dark energy is changing. It could prove Einstein wrong and upend a pillar of modern physics.
Levi is the director for the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument, DESI, which produced the new map. The instrument consists ...
Mapping cosmic shear to illuminate dark energy
Gravitational lensing often evokes images of a cosmic funhouse mirror: duplicated galaxies, dramatic arcs and distorted ...
Team preps to study dark energy via exploding stars with NASA's Roman
The universe is ballooning outward at an ever-faster clip under the power of an unknown force dubbed dark energy. One of the ...
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Dark Energy
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 ...
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Dark energy, explained
“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 ...