A bold claim that the universe’s accelerating expansion was an illusion has been put to the test—and failed. Researchers ...

Nobel laureates Adam Riess and Brian Schmidt co-authored a June 2026 rebuttal correcting two errors in a 2025 South Korean ...

A 2026 study claims to have debunked a 2025 study announcing dark energy doesn't exist. New study says the Universe is ...

Astronomers use the term dark energy to refer to energy in the universe that is unaccounted for by ordinary matter but necessary to explain cosmology. Astronomy, however, isn't the only field with ...

Scientists have been gifted with a clearer picture of the expansion of the universe and dark energy, the mysterious force driving the acceleration of this expansion, than ever before. This comes ...

Last year, we reported on an exciting hint of new physics in the first data analysis results from the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI)—namely that the dark energy, rather than being ...

If you imagine the story of the universe as a film endlessly in post-production, cosmologists would be its obsessive editors, constantly tweaking the narrative. The version they are working with is an ...