Universe expanding, driven by `dark energy`

Last Updated: Friday, March 30, 2012, 18:55

The universe is expanding at exactly the speed Prof Albert Einstein has predicted - driven by "dark energy", says a new study.

Einstein`s `dark energy` indeed exists!

Last Updated: Friday, May 20, 2011, 11:22

`Dark energy` is a concept first cast by Einstein in his original `Theory of General Relativity`.

`Expansion of universe due to dark energy`

Last Updated: Sunday, March 28, 2010, 17:52

Astronomers have confirmed the mysterious dark energy as the most comprehensive evidence yet for the accelerated expansion of the universe, based on a study of nearly half a million galaxies using the Hubble Space Telescope.

ESA missions to explore dark energy, habitable planets and Sun’s mysteries

Last Updated: Saturday, February 20, 2010, 20:24

Dark energy, habitable planets around other stars, and the mysterious nature of our own Sun, have been chosen by the European Space Agency (ESA) as candidates for two medium-class missions to be launched by the year 2017.

Mapping 3D structure of Universe may shed new light on dark energy

Last Updated: Friday, October 2, 2009, 15:03

Astronomers from the University of Arizona (UA) and 41 other institutions are beginning the most ambitious project yet to map the three-dimensional structure of the universe in a quest to understand dark energy.