Dark energy is one of those cosmological features that we are still learning about. While we can't see it directly, we can most famously observe its effects on the universe—primarily how it is causing ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Astronomers have to use indirect evidence, like the explosions of Type Ia supernovae, to investigate the impacts of dark energy.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. G299 Type Ia supernova remnant. Measurements from Type Ia supernovae, baryon acoustic oscillations (BAO), and the cosmic microwave ...

On Wednesday, Jan. 28, 2026 at 7 pm (PST), Dr. Robert Kirshner (Thirty-Meter Telescope Obs.) will give a free, illustrated, non-technical lecture entitled: “Discovering Dark Energy and New ...

For a generation, cosmologists have treated dark energy as a fixed backdrop, a steady pressure stretching space faster and faster forever. Now a wave of new measurements suggests that this invisible ...

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 ...

Last year, we reported on an exciting hint of new physics in the first data analysis results from the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI)—namely that the dark energy, rather than being ...

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Dark energy is still one of the greatest cosmic mysteries. For all the time, money and telescopes that humanity has used to uncover its nature, scientists are still asking a fundamental question: What ...

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