The tension started to emerge from different datasets in the 2000s, mainly from the Hubble space telescope, and also recent data from the Gaia satellite. This tension is a cosmological disagreement, ...

(Nanowerk News) Astronomers have known for decades that the universe is expanding. When they use telescopes to observe faraway galaxies, they see that these galaxies are moving away from Earth. The ...

Enter dark energy. It’s one of the most debated and intriguing missing puzzle pieces of modern physics – a mysterious form of energy believed to uniformly permeate all of space. In the current most ...

Scientists have made the largest 3D map of the universe, measuring how fast it has expanded over billions of years by using the most precise measurements to date. An international team, including ...

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The dark sector: some of the 1.2 million galaxies surveyed by BOSS. Courtesy: Daniel Eisenstein and SDSS-III) Astronomers working on the Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (BOSS) have analysed ...

Astrophysicists have a fairly accurate understanding of how the universe ages. That’s the conclusion of new results from the Dark Energy Survey (DES), a large international science collaboration, ...