When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. An artistic celebration of the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) year-one data, showing ...

On human timescales, the universe may as well be eternal. It’ll be here long after our species and our planet are gone, but it does have an end. The generally accepted long-term evolution of the ...

New strategies may soon allow scientists to test dark energy theories within our own solar system, linking cosmic-scale physics to local observation. Science advances through a cycle of proposing ...

Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, or Berkeley Lab, researchers mapped nearly six million galaxies throughout the past 11 billion years of cosmic evolution using the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument, ...

An international consortium of scientists studying dark energy said Tuesday their three-dimensional map of the universe over 11 billion years suggested the cosmos wasn't steadily expanding, but acting ...

Dark energy—the term used to describe whatever is causing the universe to expand at an increasing rate—is one of the universe's greatest mysteries. The most widely accepted theory currently suggests ...

The Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) is studying dark energy and the accelerated expansion of the universe. Dark energy is weakening and the universe could (eventually) collapse, study says ...

(CNN) — New hints from one of the most extensive surveys of the cosmos to date suggest that mysterious dark energy may be evolving in ways that could shift how astronomers understand the universe.

NEW YORK (AP) — Distant, ancient galaxies are giving scientists more hints that a mysterious force called dark energy may not be what they thought. Astronomers know that the universe is being pushed ...

Dark energy, a mysterious force that scientists believe is behind the accelerated expansion of the universe, is weakening — which could result in the universe over the course of billions of years ...