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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, ...

The universe is expanding and that expansion is accelerating under the power of dark energy and eventually all matter and energy will be dispersed over such unthinkable distances that nothing can stop ...

A new finding by the James Webb Space Telescope has only entrenched the mystery. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Something is ...

Physicists can't explain the Hubble tension just by changing the expansion rate in the late universe – this whole class of solutions falls short. When you purchase through links on our site, we may ...

What We Thought We Knew Dark matter has long been a cornerstone of modern cosmology, introduced to explain observed gravitational effects that cannot be accounted for by visible matter alone. Since ...

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 ...

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From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...