Dark Energy
Einstein Predicted How Gravity Should Work at the Largest Scales. And He Was Right
Researchers working with the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument have mapped nearly 6 million galaxies across 11 billion years of the…
The Connection Between Black Holes and Dark Energy is Getting Stronger
The discovery of the accelerated expansion of the Universe has often been attributed to the force known as dark energy.…
Check Out This Sneak Peek of the Euclid mission’s Cosmic Atlas
On July 1st, 2023 (Canada Day!), the ESA's Euclid mission lifted off from Cape Canaveral, Florida, atop a SpaceX Falcon…
A New Catalog Charts the Evolution of the Universe Over Time
An atlas doesn’t seem to be an essential item in cars these days but think about them and most people…
Estimating the Basic Settings of the Universe
The Standard Model describes how the Universe has evolved at large scale. There are six numbers that define the model…
The World's Largest Digital Camera is Complete. It Will Go Into the Vera Rubin Observatory
The Vera C. Rubin Observatory, formerly the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST), was formally proposed in 2001 to create an…
Ice is Starting to Cloud Euclid's Optics
On July 1st, 2023, the European Space Agency (ESA) launched the Euclid Observatory, a mission that will spend the next…
Red Giants Offer a New Way to Measure Distance in the Universe
For nearly three decades now, it's been clear that the expansion of the Universe is speeding up. Some unknown quantity,…
Webb Continues to Confirm That Universe is Behaving Strangely
Over a century ago, astronomers Edwin Hubble and Georges Lemaitre independently discovered that the Universe was expanding. Since then, scientists…
Gravastars are an Alternative Theory to Black Holes. Here's What They'd Look Like
Astronomers continue to find more and more evidence of black holes, but there's an alternative theory that could explain the…