"These results from the Dark Energy Survey shine new light on our understanding of the universe and its expansion." ...

To check these predictions, the DES had to combine all four of the methods of investigating dark energy: study of signals ...

The most difficult thing about learning the dark energy is that the dark matter does not present itself directly; it only ...

Dark energy remains one of the most stubborn puzzles in modern science. Despite decades of observation and increasingly ...

The Dark Energy Survey Collaboration collected information on hundreds of millions of galaxies across the universe using the ...

Dark energy is still one of the greatest cosmic mysteries. For all the time, money and telescopes that humanity has used to ...

A new high-resolution map of distant galaxies may help scientists understand a mysterious invisible substance that helps hold ...

Astrophysicists are closer than ever to solving the mystery of what makes up almost 70 percent of the Universe.

Physicists have unveiled a new way to simulate a mysterious form of dark matter that can collide with itself but not with ...

Dark matter seems invisible, but it makes up most matter, and we have evidence that it gives the cosmos its shape. Now ...

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Photomultiplier tubes from the LUX-ZEPLIN experiment at the Sanford Underground Research Facility in South Dakota. The LZ experiment is designed to detect dark matter particles from flashes of light ...