What Is Dark Energy? Physicists Aren't Even Sure

Published: May 5, 2020, 8 a.m.

b'Dark energy makes up almost 70% of our universe and is believed to be the reason the universe is expanding. Yet very, very little is known about it. To figure out what we do know \\u2014 and what it could tell us about the fate of the universe, we talked to astrophysicist Sarafina Nance. She studies cosmology, a field that looks at the origin and development of the universe.

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