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 quarter century, cosmology has leaned on one framework to explain how the universe expands. Known as the ΛCDM model, it assumes about 70 percent of the cosmos is filled with an unseen force ...

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.

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 mysterious force driving the accelerated expansion of the universe, has puzzled scientists since its discovery in 1998. Despite its elusive nature, dark energy is believed to ...

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 ...

The Dark Energy Survey Collaboration collected information on hundreds of millions of galaxies across the universe using the U.S. Department of Energy-fabricated Dark Energy Camera, mounted on the U.S ...

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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 ...

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