The Dark Energy Camera at NOIRLab’s Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory in Chile has been used to capture an amazing view ...

The chances of intelligent life emerging in our Universe – and in any hypothetical ones beyond it – can be estimated by a new ...

Clockwise, from top left, no dark energy, same dark energy density as in our Universe, 30 and 10 times the dark energy density in our Universe. The images are generated from a suite of cosmological ...

Meanwhile, dark energy is a mysterious force thought to ... their faintness with its visible light camera. Euclid’s first images were released in November 2023, but the telescope began regularly ...

These “miniature trails of destruction,” as the researchers call them, are caused by high-energy particles bouncing off the ...

For example, pictures of galaxies that include strange ... galaxies differs from the gravity to which we are accustomed. Dark energy is even more mysterious, and its discovery in the 1990s was ...

Researchers have found that a hypothetical form of dark energy may lead to a grim fate for the universe: a "long freeze" where everything just…slows down. In this scenario, the universe would ...

On a mountain in northern Chile, scientists are carefully assembling the intricate components of the NSF–DOE Vera C. Rubin ...

Dark matter and dark energy are among the biggest puzzles in ... Engineers also found some stray light was polluting pictures when the observatory was pointed in a certain way.

In May 1999, Perlmutter and his colleagues published a paper in Science that outlined their ideas about a newly understood force in the universe — dark energy. “The universe is made up mostly ...