The surface of Earth is finite. We can measure it. If it was expanding, then its size would grow with time. And once again, ...

A new study published in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society suggests that the universe's expansion may be slowing down, contrary to the widely held belief that it is rapidly expanding.

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

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. An illustration of galaxies curving the fabric of space-time in an expanding universe. A new ...

This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features the spiral galaxy Messier 77, also known as the Squid Galaxy. Everything on Earth, in our solar system, our galaxy, and beyond is contained within ...

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

New polarization maps from the Atacama Cosmology Telescope align with Planck’s results and confirm the lower early-universe ...

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 ...

An expanding universe complicates this picture just a little bit, because the universe absolutely refuses to be ...

An international group of more than 900 researchers studying the expansion of the universe presented their findings on Wednesday during the American Physical Society’s Global Physics Summit in Anaheim ...

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 ...