"These results from the Dark Energy Survey shine new light on our understanding of the universe and its expansion." ...

For almost a century, we have known that the universe is expanding. For several decades, evidence has suggested that the expansion of the universe is accelerating. Crucial to those estimates were the ...

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Six years of Dark Energy Survey observations combine four cosmological probes to refine measurements of cosmic expansion, dark energy behavior, and matter clustering across billions of years.

On 1 January 1925, US astronomer Henry Norris Russell made a startling announcement to the American Astronomical Society in Washington DC: observations by fellow astronomer Edwin Hubble showed that ...

“You can journey to the ends of the earth in search of success,” 19th-century Baptist preacher Russell Conwell is said to have proclaimed, “but if you’re lucky, you will discover happiness in your own ...

CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. One of the fundamental ideas of cosmology is that everything looks the same in all directions if you look over large enough distances. A new study ...

It is widely thought that our universe is expanding at an ever-accelerating rate. But could we have that wrong? That is what a group of scientists from South Korea claims, but other scientists have ...

Scientists have long held that the universe is expanding at an ever-increasing rate, driven by a mysterious but measurable force known as dark energy. Now, a new study might upend that idea, ...