The team explores one of the greatest discoveries of modern astronomy - that our universe is expanding - and the new ...

For science-fiction enthusiasts, that’s a bit depressing. Space is big, and while the speed of light is incredibly fast to us ...

In the grand puzzle of the cosmos, one question continues to defy easy answers: how fast is the universe expanding? Astronomers have tried two main methods to figure it out, but their numbers don’t ...

Scientists have known for decades that the universe is expanding, but research in the past few years has shaken up calculations on the speed of growth -- raising tricky questions about theories of the ...

For centuries, humanity has pondered the ultimate fate of the universe. From theories of infinite expansion to the concept of ...

A new Utah Valley University study is providing new evidence in a debate astronomers across the world haven’t been able to agree on — how fast the universe is expanding. The findings may add more fuel ...

Astrophysicists have presumed for nearly a century that the universe will just keep expanding for all eternity, driven by an ...

We know how the universe began. An event we call the Big Bang started it all about 13.8 billion years ago. How the universe ...

A more precise distance to the Coma galaxy cluster was measured. This measurement increases the discrepancy between observed and predicted universe expansion rates. The discrepancy, called the Hubble ...

How fast is the universe expanding? This is what a recent study published in The Astrophysical Journal hopes to address as a team of scientists investigated to see if what’s known as the Standard ...

The plot represents the new model with the x-axis and the y-axis showing the minimum sizes of collapsing and expanding regions that can impact cosmological measurements. The contours are independent ...