A catalog of almost 3,000 white dwarfs that exploded as type Ia supernovas after overfeeding on companion stars indicates ...

Astronomers have combined nearly 2,900 exploding stars into the largest standardized supernova dataset yet assembled, and the ...

A new analysis of more than 1,700 supernovae is questioning whether the universe is really accelerating at all. After accounting for the ages of the stars that produce these explosions, researchers ...

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The most comprehensive catalog of exploding white dwarf stars ever assembled has revealed new clues about dark energy, the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Astronomers have to use indirect evidence, like the explosions of Type Ia supernovae, to investigate the impacts of dark energy.

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Physicists have deduced subtle hints that the mysterious “dark” energy that drives the universe to expand faster and faster may be ...

The largest survey ever conducted among physicists worldwide reveals surprisingly little agreement on some of the field’s ...

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket thunders away from the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, boosting the European Space Agency’s Euclid space telescope on a trajectory to deep space where it will probe the ...

Although some compelling evidence exists to support the idea that a repulsive force similar to dark energy exists, it has yet to be directly observed or measured. To circumvent this uncomfortable ...

For decades, physicists have searched for dark matter, the invisible substance thought to make up roughly 85% of all matter ...