NASA Completes Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope Construction
NASA’s next big eye on the cosmos is now fully assembled. On Nov. 25, technicians joined the inner…
Our Universe Has Already Entered Decelerating Phase, Study Suggests
New research from Yonsei University in Seoul, Korea, casts doubt on the long-standing theory that dark energy is…
Scientists May Have Found the Smallest Clump of Dark Matter Ever Seen — and It’s Still a Million Times Heavier Than the Sun
Overlay of the infrared emission (black and white) with the radio emission (colored). The dark, low-mass object is…
Information could be a fundamental part of the universe – and may explain dark energy and dark matter
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Physicists Predict When The Universe Will End in a Reverse Big Bang
If recent discoveries that dark energy is evolving hold any water, our Universe will collapse under its own…
Can a satellite unlock the secrets of the universe?
A space professor who helped design a groundbreaking satellite has said it will “profoundly change our understanding of…
Most detailed universe simulation yet: ESA’s Euclid project maps 3.4 billion galaxies
The catalogue describes each galaxy using more than 400 properties, including brightness, shape, velocity, and star formation rate.…
The observable universe is just 5% of reality, 95% remains invisible!
Ordinary matter, also called baryonic matter, consists of protons, neutrons, and electrons. This is the material that emits…
DESI Hints Dark Energy Isn’t What We Thought
The Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument is mounted on the U.S. National Science Foundation’s Nicholas U. Mayall 4-meter Telescope…
Observable universe is 93 billion light years wide but what’s beyond it? Here’s what we can’t see…
One of the most important pieces of evidence for this limit is the cosmic microwave background radiation, faint…
When stars die, black holes possibly turn their remains into dark energy
On a quiet mountaintop in southern Arizona, 5,000 robotic eyes scan the sky every night, each locking onto…
Black Holes Are the Elusive Source of the Universe’s Dark Energy, Study Argues
Dark energy—the hypothetical force accelerating our universe’s expansion—sometimes raises more questions than it answers. A new study, however,…