This isn&#x27;t really correct. Expansion of space is not the same thing as <i>accelerated</i> expansion of space. Aaccelerated expansion is indeed due to something &quot;pushing&quot; objects apart--that something is called &quot;dark energy&quot;. But expansion itself, apart from the effects of dark energy, does not push on anything; it doesn&#x27;t exert any force that moves objects apart or works against gravity. So thinking of ordinary expansion (apart from accelerated expansion) as &quot;creating space&quot; in between objects isn&#x27;t really correct. It&#x27;s unfortunate that so many pop science treatments use this way of speaking, since it leads to the incorrect inference I&#x27;ve just described.