Gravitational lensing often evokes images of a cosmic funhouse mirror: duplicated galaxies, dramatic arcs and distorted ...

Rolf Landauer showed that "information is physical" with every bit equivalent to a small amount of energy proportional to ...

The universe is ballooning outward at an ever-faster clip under the power of an unknown force dubbed dark energy. One of the ...

Now, researchers have discovered a strange energy source at the center of our galaxy that could be linked to a different type ...

A strange energy source at the center of the Milky Way may be a new type of dark matter. Scientists found that hydrogen gas ...

If gravity arises from entropy, scientists could unite Einstein's general relativity with the quantum realm while shedding ...

Dark matter continues to confound us, so far defying every attempt to decipher it. According to a new study, clues may lurk ...

A better understanding of type Ia supernovas could help solve the mystery of dark energy — the strange force that is causing the universe to expand at accelerating rates. That's because ...

New research suggests that dark energy isn't needed to explain the acceleration in the expansion of the universe — instead suggesting giant voids in space are creating an illusion. Dark energy ...

There's a cosmic controversy brewing in the universe. It centres around the mysterious force known as "dark energy." This concept emerged from observations of distant supernovae that, in the late ...