But there are several important anomalies, including a widely debated one called the Hubble tension. It is named after Edwin ...

The scientists realized that these supernovae weren’t as nearby as they had thought, so they had zipped away from Earth quicker than expected. “These observations led scientists to ultimately conclude ...

The rapid acceleration of the universe’s expansion continues to challenge our understanding of fundamental physics. Why the ...

Contrary to popular belief, our universe may not be constantly expanding after all. A groundbreaking study by South Korean ...

When you bake a loaf of bread or a batch of muffins, you put the dough into a pan. As the dough bakes in the oven, it expands into the baking pan. Any chocolate chips or blueberries in the muffin ...

They believed that the indefinite expansion would spread the stars so far apart that the sky would appear dark throughout and ...

A team of South Korean researchers have found that a mysterious force known as dark energy is changing our Universe in a way ...

Studies suggest that the universe's expansion is decelerating — but what could that mean for the future of the cosmos?

Cosmologists have long treated black holes and the Big Bang as separate extremes of physics, one swallowing light, the other ...

The accelerated expansion of the present universe, believed to be driven by a mysterious dark energy, is one of the greatest puzzles in our understanding of the cosmos. The standard model of cosmology ...

Astronomers have proposed a new theory to suggest why our universe is expanding at an accelerating rate. That our universe is expanding is in wide agreement, though how exactly that process happens is ...