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…

How do scientists studying space with data from a telescope hundreds of thousands of miles away know that…

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

Topline NASA is about to launch the first of what promises to be a new generation of space…

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…

An expanding mini-universe could counterbalance the collapsing matter of a star, thereby creating a stable gravastar. Credit: Daniel…

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

Astronomers have reaffirmed one of modern science’s most important discoveries: the universe is still expanding at an accelerating…

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