For over two decades, cosmologists have believed that the universe is expanding at an accelerating pace, driven by a ...

For much of the twentieth century, scientists expected the expanding universe to slow over time. The opposite turned out to ...

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

Until recently, Type Ia supernovae have been treated by cosmologists as the gold standard of cosmic distance determination: quite uniform “standard candles” whose peak brightness was reliable over all ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Fresh corroboration of the perplexing observation that the universe is expanding more rapidly than expected has scientists pondering the cause - perhaps some unknown factor ...

It’s always amazing, and more than a little humbling, when the universe reminds us that our “common sense” is provincial, ...

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 ...

The universe is expanding faster and faster, but not all scientists agree that dark energy is the cause. Perhaps, instead, our universe keeps colliding with and absorbing smaller 'baby universes,' a ...

A team of astronomers using a variety of ground and space-based telescopes including the W. M. Keck Observatory on Maunakea, ...

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 ...

WASHINGTON >> Fresh corroboration of the perplexing observation that the universe is expanding more rapidly than expected has scientists pondering the cause — perhaps some unknown factor involving the ...