03 February 2017
Astronomers spot a possible dwarf planet on the edges of the Solar System
...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 despite being...
12 January 2018
Evidence in DES map of small galaxies being eaten by the Milky Way
... 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 and tested...
13 March 2020
Over 100 new minor planets found in new astronomical survey
... 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 that DES...
04 August 2017
Most accurate measurement of Universe's dark matter revealed by DES survey
...to cement the theory that 26 percent of the universe is in the form of mysterious dark matter. Confirmation that astrophysicists have a good understanding of how the Universe ages has been presented from data gathered from the Dark Energy Survey (DES...
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...
10 September 2021
Survey detects 461 Solar System objects not found before
..., has instead discovered 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...
