Not everything we knew about the universe is wrong. But not not everything. The Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) collaboration just dropped their first official data release, covering the ...

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

First discovered in the 1990s, dark energy has come to feel like a familiar face of the cosmos. Astronomers first imagined ...

Last month, a press release announced groundbreaking findings from the Dark Energy Spectroscopy Instrument (DESI), which is installed on the Mayall Telescope in Arizona. This vast survey, containing ...

"The new model can account for both structure formation and stability, and the key observational properties of the expansion ...

Last month, the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI ... Rubin Observatory will hopefully either confirm these string theory findings or set physicists down a different path toward finding ...

Leading this quest is the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI), a global collaboration involving over 70 institutions.

Astronomers tallying up all the normal matter—stars, galaxies and gas—in the universe today have come up embarrassingly short ...

The research team found that the statistical significance of the dynamical dark energy model has reached a 4.3σ confidence ...

For decades, astronomers have known something didn’t add up in our universe. The amount of “normal” matter—stars, gas, and ...

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