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

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 ...

Gravity pulls us to earth, a lesson you learn viscerally the first time you fall. Isaac Newton described gravity as a ...

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

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

Our current best theories of the universe suggest that dark energy is making it expand faster and faster, but new ...

A new analysis of astronomical data suggests unknown physics is at work assisting dark energy in acting almost as "antigravity," undoing the work of gravity, which clumps together matter to build vast ...

The largest-ever three-dimensional map of the cosmos, plotting out some 15 million celestial objects, could help reveal the ...

Dr. Richard Lieu, a physics professor at The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH), a part of The University of Alabama ...

A new theory challenges the standard model of cosmology, arguing that dark matter and dark energy are not the forces behind ...

A long-simmering disagreement over the universe’s present-day expansion rate shows no signs of resolution, leaving experts ...

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