Dark energy is the name physicists have given to the mysterious thing driving the universe's accelerated expansion. It may be a force or a form of energy, and one piece of evidence suggests it is ...

For a quarter century, cosmology has rested on a simple but audacious idea: that a fixed “cosmological constant” drives the ...

The practice of energy healing has been around for centuries in cultures all over the world and has recently been picking up steam in the United States. Advocates for energy healing claim it comes ...

Solar energy is the world's most abundant resource, and it's increasingly being harnessed to power homes and businesses. While solar energy still makes up a small percentage of the electricity ...

The world is in the midst of a shift away from fossil fuels and towards carbon-neutral energy sources, a change expected to be as momentous as the coal that enabled the Industrial Revolution in the ...

Lone pumpjack located in the middle of large solar array outside of Bakersfield, Kern County, California, USA. (Photo by: Citizen of the Planet/UCG/Universal Images Group via Getty Images) My previous ...

Emily Rhode is a science writer, communicator, and educator with over 20 years of experience working with students, scientists, and government experts to help make science more accessible and engaging ...

Nuclear energy is a form of energy released from the nucleus, the core of atoms, made up of protons and neutrons. This source of energy can be produced in two ways: fission – when nuclei of atoms ...

In 1998, research led by Saul Perlmutter's Supernova Cosmology Project, utilizing observations of distant type Ia supernovae, discovered that the universe's expansion rate is accelerating, a finding ...