Dark energy may be the most mysterious substance ever proposed, but many scientists are certain it exists. Why?

The Standard Model of our universe doesn’t match the evidence, in part because of dark energy, a ghostly force pushing the ...

For a generation, cosmologists have treated dark energy as a fixed backdrop, a steady pressure stretching space faster and ...

A mysterious force called Dark Energy might be changing, in a way that challenges our current understanding of the nature of ...

Last year, we reported on an exciting hint of new physics in the first data analysis results from the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI)—namely that the dark energy, rather than being ...

Nearly everything in the universe is made of mysterious dark matter and dark energy, yet we can’t see either of them directly ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - New data involving millions of galaxies and luminous galactic cores is providing fresh evidence that the enigmatic and invisible cosmic force called dark energy - responsible ...

Scientists using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope have discovered that dark energy is not a new constituent of space, but rather has been present for most of the universe’s history. Dark energy is a ...

JWST NIRCam imaging of star-forming protocluster PHz G191.24+62.04, 11 billion years ago as the universe was approaching the peak of star formation. These early galaxies are among the most active star ...

lenses, which are seen when a galaxy bends the light from a distant quasar to form several images of the same quasar. Linking the number of lenses they found with the latest information on the numbers ...

For the last decade, researchers have been looking for evidence to confirm the existence of dark energy. Now they appear to have it. Scientists have new clues about the behavior of dark energy, a ...

(Nanowerk News) Almost 14 billion years ago, at the very beginning of the Big Bang, a mysterious energy drove an exponential expansion of the infant universe and produced all known matter, according ...