The latest Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument results fall short of the discovery threshold but strengthen evidence for ...

For decades, scientists believed that lead-208, a "doubly magic" and highly stable atomic nucleus, was perfectly spherical.

The fate of the universe hinges on the balance between matter and dark energy: the fundamental ingredient that drives its ...

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Last year, we reported on an exciting hint of new physics in the first data analysis results from the Dark Energy ...

String theory may be our best attempt at a theory of everything, except that it can't describe an expanding universe like ...

And yet, the vast majority of the laws of physics don’t seem to care about the direction of time at all. The equations that govern everything—from subatomic particles to the orbits of planets ...

The largest-ever three-dimensional map of the cosmos, plotting out some 15 million celestial objects, could help reveal the ultimate fate of the universe. Astrophysicists know that the universe is ...

The fate of the universe hinges on the balance between matter and dark energy: the fundamental ingredient that drives its accelerating expansion.

The new findings come from the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI), which sits on a telescope at the Kitt Peak ...