The Dark Energy Survey (DES) maps the universe in infrared to figure out the answer to a burning question: why is the universe accelerating in its expansion? The effort arises from a surprise ...

A survey of over 1,500 supernovas conducted by the Dark Energy Camera has placed strong constraints on the accelerating expansion of the universe. The results suggest that the mysterious force ...

The Dark Energy Survey collaboration announced it has created the largest-ever maps of the distribution and shapes of galaxies, tracing both ordinary and dark matter in the universe out to a distance ...

Today, scientists in the Dark Energy Survey released results that have been five years in the making. Researchers used the world's most complete census of dwarf galaxies around our Milky Way ...

The Dark Energy Camera on the Víctor M. Blanco 4-meter Telescope at Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory in Chile captured ...

Ten areas in the sky were selected as “deep fields” that the Dark Energy Camera imaged several times during the survey, providing a glimpse of distant galaxies and helping determine their 3D ...

Scientists on the Dark Energy Survey, using one of the world's most powerful digital cameras, have discovered eight more faint celestial objects hovering near our Milky Way galaxy. Scientists on ...

The data was part of the Dark Energy Survey, an international collaboration of more than 400 astronomers working together to unpick the mysteries of dark energy. The analysis focused on a variety ...

New results from a survey into dark energy show a look back 11 billion years into the past, revealing the locations of tens of thousands of galaxies in the largest ever 3D map of the universe.

The Dark Energy Survey is a collaboration of more than 400 scientists from 25 institutions in seven countries. For more information about the survey, please visit the experiment's website.

The Dark Energy Survey examines the largest-ever maps of galaxy distribution and shapes, extending more than 7 billion light-years across the Universe. The extraordinarily precise analysis ...