What we saw in the DESI experiments, and now strengthened by our South Pole Telescope observations, is that dark energy is ...

New evidence suggests the universe might not behave as expected, raising questions about the costs of being wrong.

The universe seems to be spinning, and that could explain what dark energy is and why it's weakening while revealing our ...

Could the universe be spinning like a giant top? This idea, proposed by physicist Nikodem Poplawski, opens surprising perspectives concerning dark energy and the structure of ...

Researchers unveiled their findings on March 19 as part of a massive new data release from the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument — DESI for short — which has been scanning the sky above the ...

White Dwarf Discovery Could Transform How Scientists Measure the Universe In A Nutshell Astronomers found direct evidence ...

Almost a thousand of the world’s top space scientists will visit Durham University next week (7 to 11 July) as we host the UK’s National Astronomy Meeting (NAM) 2025. NAM is the flagship annual event ...

The earliest light in the universe has been traveling across space since just after the Big Bang. Known as the cosmic ...

Almost a thousand of the world's top space scientists will visit Durham University next week (7 to 11 July) as we host the UK's National Astronomy ...

Dr Victoria Fawcett has been named as the winner of the 2025 Caroline Herschel Prize Lectureship by the Royal Astronomical ...