Paris: Dark energy makes up roughly 70 percent of the universe, yet we know nothing about it. Around 25 percent of the universe is the equally mysterious dark matter, leaving just five percent for ...

Using the Dark Energy Camera astronomers have found a packed stellar nursery of infant stars in the dark nebula in the 180-light-year-wide Circinus West molecular cloud.

Coined by University of Chicago astrophysicist Michael Turner in 1998, dark energy remains one of the great mysteries of physics. “Dark energy” is a term scientists use to refer to whatever is causing ...

To explain this phenomenon, scientists proposed a mysterious repulsive force pushing galaxies apart, called dark energy. For the next 25 years, most assumed this force was constant, an inherent ...

The rest they call, for want of a better word, dark: 23 percent is something they call dark matter, and 73 percent is something even more mysterious, which they call dark energy. “We have a ...

Dark energy is a mysterious force making the universe fly apart faster and faster. Its discovery came from one of the most unexpected results in the history of astronomy: in the late 1990s ...

Europe’s Euclid Space Telescope Is Launching a New Era in Studies of the ‘Dark Universe’ The Euclid mission will probe dark energy and dark matter like never before, setting the stage for an ...

and a force that repels gravity known as dark energy (70 percent). Scientists have not yet observed dark matter directly. It doesn't interact with baryonic matter and it's completely invisible to ...