The Hobby-Eberly Telescope Dark Energy Experiment (HETDEX) is looking to create one of the largest maps of the universe by creating a catalog of Lyman-alpha-emitting galaxies. These galaxies, which ...

Physicists may need to come up with a new theory for how the universe works, after a dark energy experiment produced confounding results. An international team of scientists has released a "3D map of ...

Over the past decades, many research teams worldwide have been trying to detect dark matter, an elusive type of matter that does not emit, reflect or absorb light, using a variety of highly sensitive ...

Dark energy remains one of the most stubborn puzzles in modern science. Despite decades of observation and increasingly powerful telescopes, its true nature is still unknown. Now, scientists involved ...

The mysterious force called Dark Energy, which drives the expansion of the Universe, might be changing in a way that challenges our current understanding of time and space, scientists have found. Some ...

The latest results combined weak lensing and galaxy clustering and incorporated four dark energy probes from a single experiment for the first time. “DES really showcases how we can use multiple ...

At a beachfront convention center in Cancún, Mexico, last December, Seshadri Nadathur presented a confidential growth chart of the universe. Seated in the audience, hundreds of his fellow scientists ...

Gravity pulls us to earth, a lesson you learn viscerally the first time you fall. Isaac Newton described gravity as a universal attractive force, one that holds the Moon in orbit around the Earth, the ...