Physicists have used a cutting-edge quantum computer to simulate a complex particle theory in two dimensions. Unlike ...

Cosmologists say new findings about a mysterious force called dark energy have upended their predictions about the eventual ...

Dark energy, the mysterious force that makes up 70 percent of everything in existence, was hypothesized to explain why the ...

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

Dark matter could be an entire dark sector of the universe, with its own particles and forces H ave you ever stood by the sea ...

The supernova pictured here is of a smaller type, used by astronomers to determine distance. This one appears to us now as it looked when the universe was about five billion years old. The sun ...

The study of elementary particles and forces is of central importance to our understanding of the universe. Now a team of ...

According to one idea, dark energy is a fifth and previously unknown type of fundamental force called quintessence, which fills the universe like a fluid. Many scientists have also pointed out ...

a mysterious force pushing the universe to expand at an ever-accelerating rate. The current expansion rate is 68.22 kilometers per second for each megaparsec (about 3 million light-years) of space, ...

The Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) is studying dark energy and the accelerated expansion of the universe.

They're some of the most violent objects in our universe, powerful enough to rip ... the stronger your gravitational force will become. To make Earth into a black hole, for instance, you'd have ...

An artist's impression of a galaxy in the early universe. Illustration ... In the study, the team investigated two types of supernovae, called core-collapse supernovae and Population (or Pop ...