The universe’s expansion is accelerating, not decelerating. Our understanding of how the universe works may need an update.

Perlmutter, Riess, and Schmidt attributed this deviation to Einstein’s cosmological constant, which is represented by the Greek letter Lambda, Λ, and is related to the deceleration parameter. Their ...

Teleology is the idea that some processes in nature are directed toward a goal or an end. Today, it is commonly asserted that ...

ANALYSIS: The groundbreaking findings throw established science into question, write Bernard J.T. Jones, Licia Verde, ...

If dark energy is weakening, it stands to reason that eventually gravity will become dominant and the universe will begin to ...

Not everything we knew about the universe is wrong. But not not everything. The Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) ...

This year, the scientific community is celebrating the 100th anniversary of quantum mechanics, which changed our ...

A new analysis of astronomical data suggests unknown physics is at work assisting dark energy in acting almost as ...

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China's National Astronomical Observatories holds a press conference for a major scientific breakthrough in the study of dark ...