Not everything we knew about the universe is wrong. But not not everything. The Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) collaboration just dropped their first official data release, covering the ...

Gravity pulls us to earth, a lesson you learn viscerally the first time you fall. Isaac Newton described gravity as a ...

Physicists have proposed a new model of space-time that may provide the 'first observational evidence supporting string theory,' a new preprint suggests.

First discovered in the 1990s, dark energy has come to feel like a familiar face of the cosmos. Astronomers first imagined ...

Last month, a press release announced groundbreaking findings from the Dark Energy Spectroscopy Instrument (DESI), which is installed on the Mayall Telescope in Arizona. This vast survey, containing ...

"The new model can account for both structure formation and stability, and the key observational properties of the expansion ...

Last month, the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI ... Rubin Observatory will hopefully either confirm these string theory findings or set physicists down a different path toward finding ...

Astronomers have long been puzzled by two strange phenomena at the heart of our galaxy. First, the gas in the central ...

Dark Energy 'Doesn't Exist' So Can't Be Pushing 'Lumpy' Universe Apart Dec. 20, 2024 — One of the biggest mysteries in science -- dark energy -- doesn't actually exist, according to researchers ...

Leading this quest is the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI), a global collaboration involving over 70 institutions.

The research team found that the statistical significance of the dynamical dark energy model has reached a 4.3σ confidence ...