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

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

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

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

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 ...

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 ...

Officials from the energy and mines ministry eventually released a statement in which they said an electrical substation in ...

A new theory suggests that the universe has different time zones For more than two decades, cosmologists have been invoking the idea of a mysterious dark energy to explain observations that ...

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

The discovery, made with the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI), contains several "missing link" intermediate-mass black holes. This is both the largest sample of dwarf galaxies with ...

This artist’s illustration depicts a dwarf galaxy that hosts an active galactic nucleus — an actively feeding black hole. In the background are many other dwarf galaxies hosting active black ...