The expansion of the universe is still accelerating under the influence of dark energy, despite recent claims to the contrary ...

Research led by the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai, along with Professor Subir Sarkar from the University of ...

Scientists confirm the universe is still expanding faster, refuting a recent challenge that questioned the existence of dark energy.

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 ...

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 ...

Studying Type Ia supernovae – violent, luminous white dwarf star explosions – led to the Nobel Prize-winning discovery that the universe’s expansion is accelerating. This image combines data from four ...

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 ...

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 ...

In 1998, scientists discovered that our universe expands with acceleration, and in order to explain this effect, the concept of dark matter was introduced. This is a special type of energy that fills ...

The universe's expansion may actually have started to slow rather than accelerating at an ever-increasing rate as previously thought, a new study suggests. "Remarkable" findings published today in ...