The six-year Dark Energy Survey has released its full results, showing that two leading models of cosmology are equally valid ...

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

Dark energy is still one of the greatest cosmic mysteries. For all the time, money and telescopes that humanity has used to ...

The most ambitious attempt to do so was the Dark Energy Survey (DES), an international collaboration that scanned a huge ...

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In an unprecedented step, researchers crafted a detailed model compatible with the universe’s accelerated expansion.

Dark energy remains one of the most stubborn puzzles in modern science. Despite decades of observation and increasingly powerful telescopes, its true nature is still unknown. Now, scientists involved ...

Astronomers use the term dark energy to refer to energy in the universe that is unaccounted for by ordinary matter but ...

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 ...

Physicist Jessica Muir contributes to the Dark Energy Survey, mapping the sky and advancing understanding of cosmic ...

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 ...

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 ...