An expanding universe complicates this picture just a little bit, because the universe absolutely refuses to be ...

A new study casts doubt on the universe’s accelerating expansion, suggesting dark energy might be weakening over time.

Whether the Universe will 'end' at all is not certain, but all evidence suggests it will continue being humanity's cosmic ...

The universe is expanding. That much is clearer. But it’s less clear whether this expansion is accelerating or slowing down.

One of the big mysteries of the universe is how it's expanding. The phenomenon causing that expansion is known as dark energy — and recently, scientists have started to wonder if its changing. Now let ...

When you bake a loaf of bread or a batch of muffins, you put the dough into a pan. As the dough bakes in the oven, it expands into the baking pan. Any chocolate chips or blueberries in the muffin ...

As if dark energy weren't already mysterious and baffling enough, new research suggests that this unknown force may not be driving galaxies apart at an accelerating rate anymore. This remarkable ...

That's the case for a galaxy described in a new paper by PhD student Sijia Cai of Tsinghua University's Department of ...

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