The universe is big, and it's getting bigger. To study dark energy, the mysterious force behind the accelerating expansion of our universe, scientists are using the Dark Energy Spectroscopic ...

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Understanding the vast structure of the universe, from galaxies to superclusters, requires complex models and immense ...

IDC has just released estimates that this year, the Digital Universe — meaning every electronically stored piece of data or file out there — will reach 1.2 million petabytes, or 1.2 zettabytes, this ...

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We have bad news for any cosmologists out there: you have a lot of work ahead of you. There's long been a discrepancy between the calculated, theoretical rate at which the universe ought to be ...

The European Space Agency (ESA) has just released the first batch of data from the groundbreaking Euclid space telescope, which was built to study the mysteries of dark matter and dark energy ...

Astronomers using the Webb Telescope may have found a new type of object: cold, glowing black hole stars from the early ...

Physicists have been puzzling over conflicting observational results pertaining to the accelerating expansion rate of our Universe—a major discovery recognized by the 2011 Nobel Prize in Physics. New ...

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When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. At first, there was nothing — complete and utter emptiness. Zero energy and zero matter. And then ...