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

The accelerating expansion of the universe is usually explained by an invisible force known as dark energy. But a new study suggests this mysterious ingredient may not be necessary after all. Using an ...

Filippenko will discuss the discovery that the expansion of the universe is speeding up over time, a finding that led to the 2011 Nobel Prize in Physics. He will also discuss the Hubble tension, with ...

The Dark Energy Survey Collaboration collected information on hundreds of millions of galaxies across the universe using the ...

The accelerating expansion of the universe could be explained by modifying general relativity so that gravity has mass – or so thinks a small group of physicists. Matthew Francis reports What lies ...

The universe's expansion may actually have started to slow rather than accelerating at an ever-increasing rate as previously thought, a new study suggests. "Remarkable" findings published today in ...

Our understanding of the universe may be completely wrong.

The Universe has long been cast as effectively immortal, coasting into a cold, dark eternity so distant that it might as well ...

When NASA launched the Pioneer probes, they were met with an intriguing mystery. At around 20 astronomical units, both ...

For the three astrophysicists who won the Nobel Prize in physics today (Oct. 4), it was only a matter of when, not if, they would get the prize, their peers said. Their discovery that the universe's ...