Dark energy

Liam DesrePhoto credit: youthscience.ca In the grand quest to understand why the universe is expanding faster and faster,…

Type Ia supernovae are powerful stellar explosions that occur when a white dwarf is pushed into a thermonuclear…

A global survey of physicists reveals strikingly little consensus on some of the deepest questions in modern physics,…

The driving force behind our universe’s accelerated expansion remains one of the greatest mysteries in astronomy. While this…

In the late 90s, a space telescope helped flip our understanding of the universe on its head. Data…

This weekend, NASA plans to launch its next flagship mission into deep space. The Nancy Grace Roman Space…

NASA is set to launch its next-generation space telescope, the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, on the 30th.…

The world’s most powerful particle accelerator has gone silent, but only for now. The European Council for Nuclear…

Theoretically, black holes emerged from the principles of Albert Einstein’s general relativity (gravity as distortions of spacetime), but…

Image(s): Left/AI Generated/Right/Wikipedia For decades, physicists searched for a missing piece of nature’s puzzle, an elusive particle believed…

Scientists from Goethe University, Frankfurt, studying alternatives to black holes have suggested a mathematically viable formation mechanism for…

A fresh analysis of Type Ia supernovae overturns a controversial 2025 claim that cosmic expansion is slowing. Type…

Meet Liam Desre, the 14-year-old Canadian who proposed a thermodynamic alternative to dark energy; his cosmology project won a €5,000 second prize against 144 young researchers from 37 countries at EUCYS 2026