GENEVA, Switzerland — For over two decades, astronomers have been puzzled by the mysterious “dark energy” driving the ...

A novel theoretical model based on universal expansion and star formation suggests that our universe might not have the ...

The chances of intelligent life emerging in our universe—and in any hypothetical ones beyond it—can be estimated by a new ...

Surprisingly, though, we found that even a significantly higher dark energy density would still be compatible with life, ...

The more stars there are in a universe, the better the chances of possible life. This would not make our cosmos ideal, says a ...

How does the density of dark energy affect the likelihood of intelligent life arising in the Universe? To answer this ...

Astronomers at the University of Michigan could have found evidence linking dark energy—a mysterious energy that drives the ...

Why is the expansion of our Universe accelerating? Twenty-five years after its discovery, this phenomenon remains one of the greatest scientific mysteries. Solving it involves testing the fundamental ...

How the same region of the Universe would look in terms of the amount of stars for different values of the dark energy density. Clockwise, from top left, no dark energy, same dark energy density as in ...

These “miniature trails of destruction,” as the researchers call them, are caused by high-energy particles bouncing off the ...

Einstein's Equations Collide With the Mysteries of ... Evidence Mounts for Dark Energy from Black Holes Oct. 28, 2024 — Researchers have strengthened the case that matter becomes dark energy ...

This week, researchers reported the world's second-tiniest toad, winning the silver in the Brachycephalus contest. Chemists ...