The Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument used millions of galaxies and quasars to build the largest 3D map of our universe to date. Combining their data with other experiments shows signs that the ...

Scientists are homing in on the nature of a mysterious force called dark energy, and nothing short of the fate of the ...

Using data from nearly 15 million galaxies and quasars, the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) has created the most detailed 3D map of the universe ever made. A new analysis combining DESI’s ...

Dark energy, this still poorly understood force that accelerates the expansion of the Universe, might be even more intriguing ...

On 19 March 2025, the European Space Agency's Euclid mission releases its first batch of survey data, including a preview of its deep fields. Here, hundreds of thousands of galaxies in different ...

Scientists have taken the clearest-ever images of the universe when it was just 380,000 years old—essentially a baby picture ...

Despite the bounce and subsequent expansion, nothing can leave the event horizon, so it expands into a new region of ...

A groundbreaking new dataset containing information on 18.7 million celestial objects —the largest ever assembled—is now accessible to researchers, paving the way toward solving some of the universe’s ...

University of Arizona researchers are among a group of scientists who hope to discover what happened immediately after the Big Bang, when the universe expanded in a fraction of a ...

Astronomers have unveiled stunning new images of the universe in its infancy, offering a glimpse into the earliest moments ...

Dark energy, in the form of a cosmological constant (Λ), has been seen as responsible for the accelerating expansion of space ...

The new images, to be presented at an upcoming meeting of the American Physical Society, date back to when the universe was ...