A mysterious force called Dark Energy might be changing, in a way that challenges our current understanding of the nature of ...

There is growing controversy over recent evidence suggesting that a mysterious force known as dark energy might be changing ...

Scientists have detected the most distant supernova ever seen, exploding when the universe was less than a billion years old.

One such occasion occurred earlier in 2025, when NASA scientists reported sightings of a supernova that exploded when the ...

For decades, the prevailing view has been that dark energy causes the universe’s expansion to accelerate indefinitely, potentially ending in a scenario known as the “Big Rip,” in which galaxies, stars ...

"We've been waiting to reach this point for a long time." When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Using the largest catalog of exploding ...

For much of the twentieth century, scientists expected the expanding universe to slow over time. The opposite turned out to be true.

The universe’s expansion might not be accelerating but slowing down, a new study suggests. If confirmed, the finding would upend decades of established astronomical assumptions and rewrite our ...

Physicists think we could see such an explosion in the next 10 years - and it would 'revolutionize physics and rewrite the history of the universe'. This artist’s concept takes a fanciful approach to ...

The John N. Bahcall Lecture Series Presenter: Robert Kirshner, Clowes Professor of Science, Harvard University Exploding stars halfway across the universe show that the expansion of the universe is ...