Dark Energy This week’s Starcast dives deep into groundbreaking research suggesting the universe’s expansion is actually slowing down, prompting a major reconsideration of the nature and evolution of dark energy away from the standard cosmological model. Episode Links: https://science.nasa.gov/dark-energy/ https://phys.org/news/2025-11-universe-expansion-evidence-mounts-dark.html https://www.poetry.com/poem/32878/the-great-explosion