What we saw in the DESI experiments, and now strengthened by our South Pole Telescope observations, is that dark energy is ...

New evidence suggests the universe might not behave as expected, raising questions about the costs of being wrong.

The universe seems to be spinning, and that could explain what dark energy is and why it's weakening while revealing our ...

Almost a thousand of the world's top space scientists will visit Durham University next week (7 to 11 July) as we host the UK's National Astronomy ...

We know black hole mergers occur because we can detect the resulting gravitational waves. But when trying to piece together ...

Researchers unveiled their findings on March 19 as part of a massive new data release from the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument — DESI for short — which has been scanning the sky above the ...

Dr Victoria Fawcett has been named as the winner of the 2025 Caroline Herschel Prize Lectureship by the Royal Astronomical ...

The earliest light in the universe has been traveling across space since just after the Big Bang. Known as the cosmic ...

The Rubin Observatory will reveal its first images on Monday. Space.com spoke to scientists who explained why this will be a ...

Most popular science books start the universe with a single, explosive Big Bang. A new study argues something quieter but no less dramatic: the early cosmos may have been deep inside a gigantic ...

Scientists have discovered that something is making cosmic distance markers appear much farther away than they should be.