WASHINGTON, June 16 : Taking a fresh look at data involving a specific type of stellar explosion, a team of researchers says it has confirmed the long-accepted notion that the universe is expanding at an accelerated rate - the very observation that led to the identification in the 1990s of an enigmatic cosmic force

WASHINGTON, June 16 : Taking a fresh look at data involving a specific type of stellar explosion, a team of researchers says it has confirmed the long-accepted notion that the universe is expanding at an accelerated rate - the very observation that led to the identification in the 1990s of an enigmatic cosmic force

An international research coalition has successfully verified that the expansion of the universe is accelerating