WASHINGTON (Reuters) - New data involving millions of galaxies and luminous galactic cores is providing fresh evidence that the enigmatic and invisible cosmic force called dark energy - responsible ...

Recent observational breakthroughs are beginning to challenge the long-standing view of dark energy as unchanging. Data from the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument ( DESI ), an advanced survey ...

For a quarter century, cosmologists have treated dark energy as a fixed, featureless pressure that steadily drives galaxies ...

Scientists using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope have discovered that dark energy is not a new constituent of space, but rather has been present for most of the universe’s history. Dark energy is a ...

For nearly a century, dark matter has been the invisible scaffolding of the universe, inferred from its gravitational pull ...

lenses, which are seen when a galaxy bends the light from a distant quasar to form several images of the same quasar. Linking the number of lenses they found with the latest information on the numbers ...

For the last decade, researchers have been looking for evidence to confirm the existence of dark energy. Now they appear to have it. Scientists have new clues about the behavior of dark energy, a ...

JWST NIRCam imaging of star-forming protocluster PHz G191.24+62.04, 11 billion years ago as the universe was approaching the peak of star formation. These early galaxies are among the most active star ...

Distant, ancient galaxies are giving scientists more hints that a mysterious force called dark energy may not be what they thought.See an excerpt of an interview in the video aboveAstronomers know ...

(Nanowerk News) Almost 14 billion years ago, at the very beginning of the Big Bang, a mysterious energy drove an exponential expansion of the infant universe and produced all known matter, according ...