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

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

Nearly everything in the universe is made of mysterious dark matter and dark energy, yet we can’t see either of them directly ...

To astronomers in the 1990s, these three facts were self-evident: The universe is expanding; all the matter in the universe is gravitationally attracting all the other matter in the universe; ...

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Cosmologists are quietly confronting a possibility that would have sounded absurd a generation ago: the standard picture of a ...

Researchers in Germany argue that a modified theory of gravity could explain universal expansion, removing dark energy from ...

The Universe has long been cast as effectively immortal, coasting into a cold, dark eternity so distant that it might as well ...

Scientists propose a new gravity theory using Friedmann equations. Their model explains the universe’s accelerating expansion ...

Scientists have made a new calculation of the speed at which the universe is expanding, using the data taken by the powerful new James Webb Space Telescope on multiple galaxies. Above, Webb’s image of ...

CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. One of the fundamental ideas of cosmology is that everything looks the same in all directions if you look over large enough distances. A new study ...

This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features the spiral galaxy Messier 77, also known as the Squid Galaxy. CREDIT: ESA/Hubble & NASA, L. C. Ho, D. Thilker. Get ...