12 January 2018
Evidence in DES map of small galaxies being eaten by the Milky Way
... III – were already previously known to researchers. The others were discovered using the Dark Energy Camera, the primary observation tool of the Dark Energy Survey and one of the most powerful astronomical cameras on Earth. The camera was built...
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...
04 August 2017
Most accurate measurement of Universe's dark matter revealed by DES survey
... have 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...
10 September 2021
Survey detects 461 Solar System objects not found before
...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..., some of those were already known from past surveys. Bernardinelli and colleagues new sweep of the skies though...
26 April 2016
Professor Joshua Frieman elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
... understand their role as cosmological distance indicators and to improve constraints on dark energy. Currently, Frieman serves as Director of the Dark Energy Survey, an international collaboration of more than 300 scientists from 25 institutions...
03 February 2017
Astronomers spot a possible dwarf planet on the edges of the Solar System
...Dark Energy Survey (DES), with followup measurements by the Atacama Large Millimetre/Submillimetre Array (ALMA). The Dark Energy Survey is an optical survey... detectable in the visible by DES and similar surveys.” In other words, it is likely that ...
