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Dark energy may be the most mysterious substance ever proposed, but many scientists are certain it exists. Why?

NASA’s SPHEREx space telescope has completed its first infrared map of the entire sky in 102 colors using observations made between May and December 2025. NASA’s SPHEREx space telescope — launched in ...

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Douglas Scott is professor of physics and astronomy at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada. He collaborated with George Smoot at Berkeley. Joseph Silk is professor of physics at ...

The popular consensus among scientists is that the universe will continue expanding until the bitter end. A team of researchers is now pumping the brakes on that idea. A new theory promises to ...

Very early dark energy (vEDE) may have accelerated the universe’s expansion just 380,000 years after the Big Bang, according to newly published research. This proposed form of dark energy would have ...