New research suggests the universe may be lopsided. Cosmic microwave background and galaxy data hint at directional differences, challenging cosmology’s assumption of uniformity and standard ...

Astronomers have known for decades that the universe is expanding. When they use telescopes to observe faraway galaxies, they see that these galaxies are moving away from Earth. To astronomers, the ...

Astrophysicists have a fairly accurate understanding of how the universe ages. That’s the conclusion of new results from the Dark Energy Survey (DES), a large international science collaboration, ...

Dark energy, the mysterious force that makes up 70 percent of everything in existence, was hypothesized to explain why the expansion of the universe was accelerating. Ever since, it's been thought of ...

The universe's expansion is accelerating, a phenomenon attributed to dark energy, potentially explained by a cosmological constant (Λ) in Einstein's general relativity. The ΛCDM model, the standard ...

The shape of the universe is not something we often think about. My colleagues and I have published a new study that suggests it could be asymmetric or lopsided, meaning not the same in every ...

The shape of the universe is not something we often think about. But my colleagues and I have published a new study suggests it could be asymmetric or lopsided, meaning not the same in every direction ...

Rossana Ruggeri is the recipient of an Australian Research Council (ARC) Discovery Early Career Researcher Award (DECRA), which supports her independent research project titled "Probing Dark Energy ...

Last year, we reported on an exciting hint of new physics in the first data analysis results from the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI)—namely that the dark energy, rather than being ...

(Nanowerk News) Astronomers have known for decades that the universe is expanding. When they use telescopes to observe faraway galaxies, they see that these galaxies are moving away from Earth. The ...

Subir Sarkar receives funding from the UK Research & Innovation (UKRI) councils. The shape of the universe is not something we often think about. But my colleagues and I have published a new study ...