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"If these results are confirmed, it would mark a major paradigm shift in cosmology since the discovery of dark energy 27 years ago." When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an ...

What does it feel like to make one of the biggest discoveries in physics? Adam Riess knows — because his work revealed that the universe isn’t just expanding, it’s accelerating. In this episode, the ...

Dark energy, an unusual force associated with the expansion of the universe, may one day cause the cosmos to collapse, according to a new theory proposed by scientists. Over the last few months, there ...

Cosmology is in crisis. The pillars of science’s most successful model of how the universe formed – and where it is heading – are starting to crack. One of those pillars is dark energy, a mysterious ...