Distant, ancient galaxies are giving scientists more hints that a mysterious force called dark energy may not be what they thought. Astronomers know that the universe is being pushed apart at an ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Distant, ancient galaxies are giving scientists more hints that a mysterious force called dark energy may not be what they thought. Astronomers know that the universe is being ...

which correlate to different cosmic ages, scientists determined how the universe’s expansion rate has changed over time under the influence of dark energy. Then the team cross-checked that data ...

with dark energy as the hypothesized reason. The new DESI findings focused on the growth of what is called the cosmic structure, dating back to when the universe was about 20% its current age.

The findings call into question just how finely tuned our universe really is. Somewhere in the multiverse, there could be universes more predisposed to forming stars, and possibly life, than our ...

General relativity has passed one of its most precise tests ever thanks to observations of the past 11 billion years of cosmic evolution collected by the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument ...