It’s a powerful technique, but small uncertainties at each step can add up, something critics argue may be behind the Hubble ...

Scientists are testing a novel way to measure cosmic expansion using time delays in gravitationally lensed quasars. Their ...

New measurements using gravitational lensing suggest the universe’s current expansion rate does not agree with signals from ...

The universe’s expansion rate was supposed to be a solved problem, yet the latest high precision map of the early cosmos has ...

Current physics is speeding toward a breaking point, as astronomers confirm that the Hubble tension in new data.

A cosmic camera hog is helping astronomers figure out the rate of the universe’s expansion. Images of the supernova Refsdal have popped up multiple times in the constellation Leo, thanks to light from ...

Hubble’s measurements of today’s expansion rate do not match the rate that was expected based on how the Universe appeared shortly after the Big Bang over 13 billion years ago. Using new data from the ...

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There is an important and unresolved tension in cosmology regarding the rate at which the universe is expanding, and ...