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 ...

Astronomers thought dark energy was a constant. But now, findings from the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument provide even more evidence that it may be fluctuating ...

Physicists have proposed a new model of space-time that may provide the 'first observational evidence supporting string theory,' a new preprint suggests.

A few days ago, a new press release announced groundbreaking findings from the Dark Energy Spectroscopy Instrument (DESI), which is installed on the Mayall Telescope in Arizona. This vast survey, ...

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

told Quanta Magazine of the findings. The DESI telescope, located in Kitt Peak, Arizona, searches and measures galaxies to tease out the effects of dark energy. It's now surveyed a staggering 15 ...

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 ...

Their findings suggest that dark energy is not constant; instead, it appears to be losing strength over time. A New Type of Particle – There might be an unknown force or particle affecting dark ...

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