Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A render of a dark energy universe from NASA's Goddard Space Center. (Credit: NASA) Astronomers at the Center of Applied Space ...

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For a quarter century, cosmology has rested on a simple but audacious idea: that a fixed “cosmological constant” drives the universe’s accelerating expansion. Now a new wave of data is forcing ...

If gravity arises from entropy, scientists could unite Einstein's general relativity with the quantum realm while shedding light on dark matter and dark energy. When you purchase through links on our ...

The reconstructed dark-energy equation-of-state parameter w(z).The black curve denotes the mean value, while the light blue shaded zones indicate the allowed regions at 1σ confidence level. An ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Scientists working in an international collaboration have tracked how the structure of the cosmos has grown over the past 11 billion years, providing the most precise test to ...

Gravity has shaped our cosmos. Its attractive influence turned tiny differences in the amount of matter present in the early universe into the sprawling strands of galaxies we see today. A new study ...

(via Sabine Hossenfelder) Most astrophysics are pretty convinced that 80% of the matter in the universe is some invisible stuff that they can’t detect - dark matter. The idea has become more popular ...

This video explores the enigma of dark matter, an elusive substance believed to make up most of the universe's matter. While the universe is populated by visible stars and galaxies, much of its mass ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. When it comes to understanding the fabric of the universe, most of what scientists think exists is consigned to a dark, murky domain.

The universe is hiding something. Stars at the outer edges of galaxies whirl around the galactic center far more swiftly than the laws of physics say they should. At even larger scales, galaxy ...