Last Updated: Friday, November 8, 2013, 16:17
Dartmouth researchers have ruled out a controversial theory, claiming that the accelerating expansion of the universe is an illusion.
Last Updated: Wednesday, September 4, 2013, 16:39
Physicists and astronomers have now started their quest for finding the answers as to why the expansion of the universe is speeding up.
Last Updated: Friday, August 16, 2013, 12:25
A handful of high-profile projects are trying to solve the mystery of dark energy, the unknown force that is believed to be causing the universe to expand faster and faster.
Last Updated: Saturday, August 10, 2013, 16:03
One of the biggest mysteries in contemporary particle physics and cosmology that have baffled experts is as to why dark energy has a remarkably small (but not zero) value.
Last Updated: Thursday, February 28, 2013, 18:09
Observation of two bright exploding stars is improving the astronomical "tape measure" used to calculate the acceleration of the expansion of the universe, say scientists.
Last Updated: Sunday, February 3, 2013, 19:08
Galaxies and matter in the universe clump in an intricate network of filaments and voids, known as the cosmic web.
Last Updated: Tuesday, December 11, 2012, 19:48
In 1917, Einstein’s novel equations of space-time had geometric terms on the left and energy on the right.
Last Updated: Monday, December 10, 2012, 17:36
A research paper by an Indian physicist has for the first time cast doubts on some of the fundamental hypotheses of the standard Big Bang model for the origin of the universe.
Last Updated: Wednesday, November 21, 2012, 18:56
New work by a team of astronomers that has yielded exquisitely precise distances of a large sample of clusters may lead to breakthroughs in understanding the expansion history of our Universe and Dark Energy.
Last Updated: Tuesday, September 18, 2012, 12:54
Scientists have announced that the world's most powerful 570-megapixel digital camera has captured first images of starlight from eight billion years ago.
Last Updated: Monday, July 23, 2012, 20:33
Depending on the properties of dark energy that makes up about 70 percent of the current content of the Universe, researchers have proposed several possible scenarios of the ultimate fate of our world.
Last Updated: Sunday, April 1, 2012, 14:02
Researchers have come up with a 3D map of the sky, which facilitates scientists to look into the time six billion years ago.
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