Euclid is on a quest to unravel one of the universe’s greatest mysteries: why it's expanding faster and faster. With help ...
Physicists have proposed a new model of space-time that may provide the 'first observational evidence supporting string ...
It drives the movements of stars and galaxies, but dark matter is invisible. While it remains a colossal mystery, a study ...
U.S. National Laboratories (Argonne, Lawrence Livermore, and Oak Ridge) possess three of the world’s fastest exascale ...
The great Russian physicist and Nobel laureate Lev Landau once remarked that "cosmologists are often in error, but never in doubt." In studying the history of the universe itself, there is always a ...
Scientists are homing in on the nature of a mysterious force called dark energy, and nothing short of the fate of the universe hangs in the balance. The force is enormous — it makes up nearly 70 ...
Dark matter is thought to pull galaxies together, while dark energy pushes them apart The European space telescope Euclid, a veritable ‘detective of the dark universe’ aided by AI and humans ...
Tyas The universe is a strange place: just 5% of the mass of everything that exists is made up of regular matter. The rest is made up of 25% dark matter and 70% dark energy. Dark matter is already ...
A visualization of a 3D map of the universe, with Earth at the center and every dot representing a galaxy. Image: DESI collaboration and KPNO/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/R ...
It is thought to account for around 70% of the universe's matter and energy. The mysterious "stuff" called dark matter makes up another 25%, and ordinary matter comprising stars, planets ...
The name dark energy was given to the phenomenon driving this acceleration, the effects of which seem to be partially offset by ordinary matter – and an also unknown thing called dark matter. The ...
The fate of the universe hinges on the balance between matter and dark energy: the fundamental ingredient that drives its accelerating expansion. New results from the Dark Energy Spectroscopic ...