Astronomers have known for decades that the universe is expanding. When they use telescopes to observe faraway galaxies, they see that these galaxies are moving away from Earth. To astronomers, the ...

An artist's illustration of the James Webb Space Telescope. Something is awry in our expanding cosmos. Nearly a century ago, the astronomer Edwin Hubble discovered the balloon-like inflation of the ...

The universe is expanding and that expansion is accelerating under the power of dark energy and eventually all matter and energy will be dispersed over such unthinkable distances that nothing can stop ...

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The Standard Model of particle physics is currently our best understanding of how the universe works – but it only describes about five percent of everything in it. The rest is made up of what we call ...

Enter dark energy. It’s one of the most debated and intriguing missing puzzle pieces of modern physics – a mysterious form of energy believed to uniformly permeate all of space. In the current most ...

Astrophysicists have a fairly accurate understanding of how the universe ages. That’s the conclusion of new results from the Dark Energy Survey (DES), a large international science collaboration, ...

The dark sector: some of the 1.2 million galaxies surveyed by BOSS. Courtesy: Daniel Eisenstein and SDSS-III) Astronomers working on the Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (BOSS) have analysed ...

(Nanowerk News) Astronomers have known for decades that the universe is expanding. When they use telescopes to observe faraway galaxies, they see that these galaxies are moving away from Earth. The ...

Menlo Park, Calif. -- Astrophysicists have a fairly accurate understanding of how the universe ages: That's the conclusion of new results from the Dark Energy Survey (DES), a large international ...