You can journey to the ends of the earth in search of success,” 19th-century Baptist preacher Russell Conwell is said to have ...

Our understanding of cosmology hinges on how well we know our own local universe, which remains poorly mapped and poorly ...

DESI observations suggest black holes may generate dark energy by consuming stellar matter. The idea resolves puzzles about ...

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 ...

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

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.

Cosmologist Katie Mack breaks down what the latest findings about dark energy mean for our universe’s future. Either way, it won’t be happy.

Even if DESI’s findings hold up, they still can’t say what dark energy is. But they can provide much stronger clues than cosmologists had before.

An artist’s concept of the dark energy-driven accelerating expansion of the universe. New results suggest dark energy’s influence on cosmic expansion has weakened over time. In 2024 a ...

Columnist and Physics How dark energy findings may inspire a new generation of physics nerds The discovery of the cosmic acceleration problem truly inspired me as a teenage physics nerd.