More than ten years ago, the Herschel space telescope stopped working. Thanks to a new analysis, its data may now have solved ...

Astronomers have peered back in time to find what looks like a population of "hidden" galaxies that could hold the key to ...

Scientists have for the first time looked deep into the protein structure that may determine our vision—and discovered that ...

Een team van Britse sterrenkundigen onder leiding van Chris Pearson (STFC RAL Space and Imperial College London) heeft met behulp van het SPIRE instrument aan boord van de Europese Herschel ruimtetele ...

Evidence suggests that we are suspended in a cosmic sea of dark matter, a mysterious substance that shapes galaxies and large structures in the universe but is transparent to photons, the carriers ...

Dark energy, the mysterious force thought to be driving the ever-faster expansion of the universe, appears to be changing over time, according to new observations released Wednesday. If dark ...

Dark energy makes up roughly 70% of the universe, yet we know nothing about it. Around 25% of the universe is the equally mysterious dark matter, leaving just 5% for everything that we can see and ...

New hints from one of the most extensive surveys of the cosmos to date suggest that mysterious dark energy may be evolving in ways that could shift how astronomers understand the universe.

Dark energy is one of the most mysterious features of our universe – we don’t know what it is, but it controls how the universe is expanding, as well as its ultimate fate. Now, a study of ...

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 ...

Scientists are homing in on the nature of a mysterious force called dark energy, and nothing short of the fate of the universe hangs in the balance. The force is enormous — it makes up nearly 70 ...

Mar. 10, 2025 — A mysterious phenomenon at the center of our galaxy could be the result of a different type of dark ... Feb. 10, 2025 — Euclid, the European Space Agency's dark Universe ...