The big-idea explorers at Aperture decode dark energy and its mysterious role in stretching the universe beyond imagination.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Astronomers have to use indirect evidence, like the explosions of Type Ia supernovae, to investigate the impacts of dark energy.

Astronomers working with the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument, known as DESI, have found growing hints that dark energy, ...

Dark energy—the term used to describe whatever is causing the universe to expand at an increasing rate—is one of the universe’s greatest mysteries. The most widely accepted theory currently suggests ...

For a quarter century, cosmology has leaned on one framework to explain how the universe expands. Known as the ΛCDM model, it assumes about 70 percent of the cosmos is filled with an unseen force ...

For more than a century, physics has been built on two great theories. Einstein's general relativity explains gravity as the bending of space and time. Quantum mechanics governs the world of particles ...

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Ask most astronomers, and they’ll tell you that dark matter and dark energy make up more than 95 percent of the universe and that they are the explanations for many of the large-scale phenomena we ...

Dark matter is some kind of substance that has gravity—it holds galaxies together—yet cannot be directly seen with any ...

A render of a dark energy universe from NASA's Goddard Space Center. Credit: NASA Astronomers at the Center of Applied Space Technology and Microgravity (ZARM) in Germany have published a new study ...

Black holes are eaters of all things, even radiation. But what if their rapacious appetites had an unexpected side effect? A new study published in Physical Review Letters suggests that black holes ...