By studying how light from eight distant quasars is gravitationally lensed as it propagates towards Earth, astronomers have ...

Learn how Hubble is measuring the expansion rate of the Universe in this new explainer from NASA's Goddard Space Flight ...

New research suggests that a troubling disparity in the rate of expansion of the universe, known as the Hubble constant, may arise from the fact Earth sits in a vast underdense region of the cosmos.

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. The Coma Cluster, as seen by the Hubble Space Telescope. | Credit: NASA/ESA/Hubble Heritage Team ...

One of the most stubborn issues in cosmology today concerns the universe's rate of expansion. Scientists know it's expanding, ...

A recent study has investigated teleparallel gravity and its potential to resolve tension surrounding the expansion of the universe in a way that general relativity can't. In the early 20th century, ...

A Simon Fraser University cosmologist believes his team's new research may bring them a step closer to cracking one of ...

Whatever dark energy is, explanations for it have less wiggle room following a Hubble Space Telescope observation that has refined the measurement of the universe’s ...

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 ...