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…

The universe is still speeding up, scientists say, keeping dark energy and its mysterious role in cosmic expansion…

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…

Roman joins an international cohort of teamworking telescopes. Roman will work in tandem with many other NASA-led and…

“If we consider what the James Webb Space Telescope is doing, it’s optimized towards looking at the very…

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…

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