Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Astronomers have to use indirect evidence, like the explosions of Type Ia supernovae, to investigate the impacts of dark energy.

The approach takes cues from the famous Drake Equation, which once guided the search for alien civilizations. This updated model focuses on how the density of dark energy and the pace of star ...

Dark energy is still one of the greatest cosmic mysteries. For all the time, money and telescopes that humanity has used to uncover its nature, scientists are still asking a fundamental question: What ...

Dark energy makes up roughly 70% of the universe, yet we know nothing about it. Around 25% of the universe is the equally mysterious dark matter, leaving just 5% for everything that we can see and ...

Dark energy is one of the most mysterious features of our universe – we don’t know what it is, but it controls how the universe is expanding, as well as its ultimate fate. Now, a study of millions of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An artist’s concept of the dark energy-driven accelerating expansion of the universe. New results suggest dark energy’s influence ...

One of the greatest mysteries in cosmology is the nature of what we refer to as dark energy. This mysterious force drives the expansion of the universe to accelerate. Dark energy is an unknown ...

New data further challenge the best scientific theory of the history and the structure of the universe. But a separate recent result reinforces it. Using the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument, or ...

This updated model focuses on how the density of dark energy and the pace of star formation work together to influence the chance of life emerging. This Hubble Space Telescope image captures a ...

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