The Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) is mapping millions of celestial objects to better understand dark energy—the mysterious driver of our universe's accelerating expansion. Today, the ...

The fate of the universe hinges on the balance between matter and dark energy: the fundamental ingredient that drives its ...

This hints that our best theory of the universe's evolution, the standard model of cosmology ... gravity as the instrument builds the largest 3D map of the universe ever. | Credit: DESI ...

Theoretical physicists James Hartle and Stephen Hawking, for example, proposed that rather than having a strict beginning as we would understand it, the universe evolved out of a "no-boundary" state ...

A project to map galaxies across the universe may have spied cracks in the foundation of our understanding of the cosmos.

Our scientists have played a leading role in creating the largest-ever 3D map of the universe ... carried out supercomputer simulations of the universe, helping to compare DESI's real-world data with ...

A visualization of a 3D map of the universe ... 10 billion years from now—is “baked into” the predominant model of the universe, Lambda-CDM, according to Rossana Ruggeri, a physicist ...

DESI has made the largest 3D map of our universe to date and uses it to study ... "For a couple of decades, we've had this standard model of cosmology that is really impressive," said Willem ...