According to current understanding, the universe is expanding—and is doing so at an accelerating rate. This is believed to be ...

Dark energy is one of the greatest mysteries in modern physics, constituting nearly 70% of the universe. It differs from ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A section of the Cat’s Paw Nebula, a star-forming region composed of gas, dust, and young stars, in this image obtained by the ...

Two of the biggest physics breakthroughs during the last decade are the discovery that wispy subatomic particles called neutrinos actually have a small amount of mass and the detection that the ...

Mathematicians are challenging the idea that dark energy is responsible for the accelerating expansion of the universe. In a new paper published in Proceedings of the Royal Society A, mathematicians ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The expansion of the universe is still accelerating under the influence of dark energy, despite recent claims to the contrary, ...

The pesky reality that the universe's expansion is accelerating — an observation that prompted astronomers to invoke an unknown entity called dark energy to explain it — has been further confirmed by ...

Certain types of supernovae, or exploding stars, are more diverse than previously thought, a University of Arizona-led team of astronomers has discovered The results, reported in two papers published ...

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It is widely thought that our universe is expanding at an ever-accelerating rate. But could we have that wrong? That is what a group of scientists from South Korea claims, but other scientists have ...

Taking a fresh look at data involving a specific type of stellar explosion, a team of researchers says it has confirmed the long-accepted notion that the universe is expanding at an accelerated rate – ...