Scientists are homing in on the nature of a mysterious force called dark energy, and nothing short of the fate of the ...

The largest-ever three-dimensional map of the cosmos, plotting out some 15 million celestial objects, could help reveal the ultimate fate of the universe. Astrophysicists know that the universe is ...

Theoretical physicists James Hartle and Stephen Hawking, for example, proposed that rather than having a strict beginning as ...

The Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) is mapping millions of celestial objects to better understand dark energy—the ...

A new map of cosmic expansion suggests that dark energy evolves over time, hinting that the universe doesn’t work the way we ...

Findings from the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) suggest that dark energy could be evolving over time. If ...

Cosmic microwave background data support cosmology’s standard model but retain a mystery about the universe’s expansion rate.

The standard model of how the universe works involves the widely accepted theory that dark energy is a fundamental constant ...

The fate of the universe hinges on the balance between matter and dark energy: the fundamental ingredient that drives its accelerating expansion.

We just got the clearest snapshot yet of the first light that streamed through the Universe. The results? We now have a clearer window into the infancy of the Universe, revealing with greater ...

"I think that the simplest explanation of the rotating universe is the universe was born in a rotating black hole." Without a doubt, since its launch, the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST ...

University of Arizona researchers are among a group of scientists who hope to discover what happened immediately after the Big Bang, when the universe expanded in a fraction of a ...