The European Space Agency (ESA) has just released the first batch of data from the groundbreaking Euclid space telescope, which was built to study the mysteries of dark matter and dark energy throughout the universe.

A European space telescope launched to explore the dark universe has released a trove of new data on distant galaxies.

The Euclid space telescope is on a mission to map more than one third of the entire sky, observing billions of galaxies over a span of six years to gather data about the universes

The new findings come from the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI), which sits on a telescope at the Kitt Peak National Observatory in Arizona.

Scientists are homing in on the nature of a mysterious force called dark energy, and nothing short of the fate of the universe hangs in the balance.

The Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) is studying dark energy and the accelerated expansion of the universe.