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

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 ...

Astronomers tallying up all the normal matter—stars, galaxies and gas—in the universe today have come up embarrassingly short ...

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 ...

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

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

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 struggled with a troubling puzzle: a significant portion of normal matter in the universe appeared to ...

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

China's National Astronomical Observatories holds a press conference for a major scientific breakthrough in the study of dark ...