Cosmologist Katie Mack breaks down what the latest findings about dark energy mean for our universe’s future. Either way, it ...

The vastness of the cosmos hides more than distant stars—it conceals the very forces that shape reality. Astronomers have ...

In Einstein's equations describing the universe, the cosmological constant Lambda (Λ) - now believed to represent dark energy ...

If dark energy is weakening, as suggested by recent results, then the cosmos is far stranger than most physicists had ...

Shocking’ results from a major astronomical study have raised doubts about the standard model of cosmology, forcing ...

In the search to understand how the universe came to be, a new theory is rewriting the script. Instead of one massive, fiery ...

Scientists have made a groundbreaking leap in detecting dark energy by developing a magnetically levitated precision force ...

What is the other 95 percent? Dark Universe examines the invisible dark matter underlying galaxies that, together with dark energy, accounts for that other 95 percent of the universe’s total energy ...

Quantum field theory predicts that empty space should nonetheless contain energy, called vacuum energy. This is one candidate for dark energy, but theory predicts that vacuum energy should act ...