"These results from the Dark Energy Survey shine new light on our understanding of the universe and its expansion." ...

The six-year Dark Energy Survey has released its full results, showing that two leading models of cosmology are equally valid ...

Six years of Dark Energy Survey observations combine four cosmological probes to refine measurements of cosmic expansion, dark energy behavior, and matter clustering across billions of years.

For a generation, cosmologists have worked with a simple story: the universe is not only expanding, it is expanding faster ...

The Dark Energy Survey Collaboration collected information on hundreds of millions of galaxies across the universe using the ...

Learn how Hubble is measuring the expansion rate of the Universe in this new explainer from NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center. Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center Producer & Director: James ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In space, there are four dimensions: length, width, height and time. scaliger/iStock/NASA via Getty Images Plus About a century ...

Was the Big Bang really the beginning of the universe, or are we 'bouncing' between periods of expansion and contraction? A new theory makes testable predictions. When you purchase through links on ...

The Big Bang is often described as the explosive birth of the universe – a singular moment when space, time and matter sprang into existence. But what if this was not the beginning at all? What if our ...

This article was originally published at The Conversation. The publication contributed the article to Space.com's Expert Voices: Op-Ed & Insights. About a century ago, scientists were struggling to ...

The expansion rate of the universe may be slowing down, rather than accelerating at an ever-growing rate, a potentially groundbreaking new study has hinted. The suggestion challenges both the 2011 ...

Rob Coyne receives funding from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and the US National Science Foundation (NSF). About a century ago, scientists were struggling to reconcile what ...