Dark Energy

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

The DESI Collaboration is a winner of the 2026 Gizmodo Science Fair for greatly advancing our understanding of…

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,…

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

NASA is set to launch its latest multi-billion-dollar telescope Sunday morning, as scientists gather at Florida’s Space Coast…

A proposed cosmology model argues that the universe may contain ordinary matter alone, without dark matter or dark…

The telescope focuses on studying dark energyA new step in the journey of space exploration Washington, DC –…

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…

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