The great Russian physicist and Nobel laureate Lev Landau once remarked that "cosmologists are often in error, but never in ...

Here’s how it works. New results from the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) suggest that the unknown force accelerating the expansion of the universe isn't what we believed it to be.

Scientists are homing in on the nature of a mysterious force called dark energy, and nothing short of the fate of the universe hangs in the balance. The force is enormous — it makes up nearly 70 ...

If dark energy continues to weaken, the accelerating expansion of the universe could slow — and possibly reverse. In that ...

Dark energy makes up roughly 70% of the universe, yet we know nothing about it. Around 25% of the universe is the equally mysterious dark matter, leaving just 5% for everything that we can see and ...

New hints from one of the most extensive surveys of the cosmos to date suggest that mysterious dark energy may be evolving in ways that could shift how astronomers understand the universe.

Dark energy, a mysterious force that scientists believe is behind the accelerated expansion of the universe, is weakening — ...

The Landauer equivalent energy of information carried, or represented by matter, effectively provides an information dark energy (IDE). Many objects in the universe, ranging in size from stars to ...

The rest is made up of 25% dark matter and 70% dark energy. Dark matter is already a mysterious phenomenon, being made of presumably particles that don’t interact with light, but dark energy is ...

The latest Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument results fall short of the discovery threshold but strengthen evidence for dynamical dark energy. Last year, we reported on an exciting hint of new ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. The Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument maps the night sky from the Nicholas U. Mayall 4 ...