Researchers at Durham and collaborators in the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) mission have proposed a bold new ...

A physical model based on black holes turning matter into dark energy offers a cure to hiccups in our understanding of the ...

A new interpretation of dark energy data suggests that the mysterious force, which accelerated the early universe's expansion ...

Cosmic maps appear consistent with the proposal that black holes could cause the Universe's accelerating expansion.

The universe is expanding, and that expansion is thought to be driven by unseen dark energy, but new measurements indicate ...

A collaboration involving a Rutgers University-New Brunswick cosmologist, along with hundreds of other researchers and dozens ...

Dark energy, the mysterious force driving the accelerated expansion of the universe, has puzzled scientists since its ...

If dark energy is constant, the universe will continue to expand, forever getting colder and emptier. If it's growing in strength, the universe will expand so speedily that it'll destroy itself in ...

If dark energy is constant, the universe will continue to expand, forever getting colder and emptier. If it's growing in strength, the universe will expand so speedily that it'll destroy itself in ...

If dark energy ebbs with time, which now seems plausible, the universe could one day stop expanding and then eventually collapse on itself in what’s called the Big Crunch.

The term dark energy was coined to describe the underlying force driving this accelerating expansion. But what it actually is, and the physics behind how it works, remain a mystery.