Dr. Richard Lieu, a physics professor at The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH), a part of The University of Alabama ...

The universe doesn't come with an instruction manual—but if it did, University of Missouri Assistant Professor Charles ...

In the years since then, scientists have remained in the dark about what’s causing the universe’s prolonged growth spurt (hence the name “dark energy”). To construct their standard model ...

A simulation created by researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology is the most detailed model of the early universe to date. Thesan, named after the Etruscan goddess of the dawn ...

In this model, dark energy pushes against the literal weight of existence to make sure it all doesn't come crashing down, accelerating the universe's expansion at a fixed rate. Meanwhile ...

For that reason, Ishak argues it’s time for scientists to update their understanding of the universe. “Is it just [that] we are missing something big in the model of our universe and we just ...

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 ...