The clearest and most precise images yet of the universe in its infancy—the earliest cosmic time accessible to humans—have ...

Dark energy, the mysterious force that makes up 70 percent of everything in the universe, was hypothesized to explain why the ...

For decades, scientists believed the universe was not just expanding but doing so at an ever-increasing pace, thanks to an ...

This image provided by NSF’s NOIRLab shows the trails of stars above Kitt Peak National Observatory, where a telescope is ...

DESI's first dataset maps 18.7 million celestial objects, aiding dark energy, galaxy, and universe expansion studies.

Cosmologists are using cutting-edge computational tools to uncover the secrets of dark matter and dark energy, which together ...

Researchers built the largest 3D map of our universe yet. What they found supports the idea that dark energy could have ...

Astronomers thought dark energy was a constant. But now, findings from the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument provide even more evidence that it may be fluctuating ...

Dark energy is a mystery so daunting that it stretches and strains our most robust theories. The universe is expanding, ...

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The new findings come from the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI), which sits on a telescope at the Kitt Peak ...

The Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument used millions of galaxies and quasars to build the largest 3D map of our universe to date. Combining their data with other experiments shows signs that the ...