Physicists have been puzzling over conflicting observational results pertaining to the accelerating expansion rate of our Universe—a major discovery recognized by the 2011 Nobel Prize in Physics. New ...
They believed that the indefinite expansion would spread the stars so far apart that the sky would appear dark throughout and ...
For almost a century, we have known that the universe is expanding. For several decades, evidence has suggested that the expansion of the universe is accelerating. Crucial to those estimates were the ...
Contrary to popular belief, our universe may not be constantly expanding after all. A groundbreaking study by South Korean ...
Our universe appears to be expanding about eight percent faster than initially assumed possible, according to new observations from the James Webb Space Telescope. There has been a long-established ...
For decades, the space community has been puzzled by a cosmic mystery: the universe seems to be expanding faster than it should be. This discrepancy, known as the Hubble Tension, has challenged our ...
Cosmic inflation tries to describe one brief but crucial phase in the Big Bang that launched the universe onto its expansion course. Many textbooks and science educators have attempted to describe the ...
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 ...
On 1 January 1925, US astronomer Henry Norris Russell made a startling announcement to the American Astronomical Society in Washington DC: observations by fellow astronomer Edwin Hubble showed that ...
A representation of the evolution of the universe over 13.77 billion years. NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center Astronomers have long understood that the universe is expanding—in other words, the space ...
If there is an absolute law in the universe, it’s that nothing can travel faster than the speed of light. For science-fiction enthusiasts, that’s a bit depressing. Space is big, and while the speed of ...
Scientists have long held that the universe is expanding at an ever-increasing rate, driven by a mysterious but measurable force known as dark energy. Now, a new study might upend that idea, ...