04 August 2017
Most accurate measurement of Universe's dark matter revealed by DES survey
... a good understanding of how the Universe ages has been presented from data gathered from the Dark Energy Survey (DES). DES is a large international science collaboration of more than 400 scientists from 26 institutions in seven countries and they...
13 March 2020
Over 100 new minor planets found in new astronomical survey
... Gary Bernstein and Masao Sako at the University of Pennsylvania used data from the Dark Energy Survey (DES); a project to understand the nature of dark energy by collecting high-precision images of the southern sky. January marked the sixth year...
12 January 2018
Evidence in DES map of small galaxies being eaten by the Milky Way
This week scientists on the Dark Energy Survey (DES) announced the public release of their first three years of data and contained within it, is tell-tale evidence ...
10 September 2021
Survey detects 461 Solar System objects not found before
...461 new objects in the outer Solar System. Found as part of the Dark Energy Survey (DES), which as its name suggests is designed to help uncover the nature of dark energy, these objects are among a population of small bodies that orbit beyond Neptune...
21 February 2018
Oldest known superluminous supernova discovered
... galaxies. The SLSN at the heart of this discovery is known as DES16C2nm and it was detected by the Dark Energy Survey (DES); an international collaboration of more than 400 scientists from over 25 institutions worldwide that began in 2013. DESt...
03 February 2017
Astronomers spot a possible dwarf planet on the edges of the Solar System
..., USA, found DeeDee using data from the Dark Energy Survey (DES), with followup measurements by the Atacama Large Millimetre/Submillimetre Array (ALMA). The Dark Energy Survey is an optical survey of 5000 square degrees of the southern sky and...
