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,…

According to the standard model of cosmology, that expansion rate should be the same no matter how you…

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

Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope to launch from Florida’s Space Coast MERRITT ISLAND, Fla. — The Nancy Grace…

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 observable universe extends far beyond its age in light-years because space itself has expanded during the journey…

Einstein’s equations revealed that the universe should evolve rather than remain static, prompting him to introduce a cosmological…

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