The local universe may be expanding more slowly than previously thought, a discovery that could relieve a pesky discrepancy ...

Two new studies have measured the expansion of the universe in our immediate cosmic neighborhood using a novel method that ...

A novel theory suggests that the current expansion rate of the universe is not fixed, but was in fact quite different in the ...

Cosmic voids may seem like the emptiest places in the universe, stripped of matter, radiation, and even dark matter. But they’re far from nothing. Even in these vast empty regions, the fundamental ...

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The local universe may be expanding more slowly than previously thought, scientists have found. The discovery, made in two separate pieces of research, could relieve one of the most troubling ...

How fast can a galaxy build ordered magnetic fields spanning thousands of light-years? Existing theories say several billion ...

For decades, we have been taught that the universe is expanding faster and faster. That belief has influenced our view of distant galaxies, how cosmologists have built their theories, and how ...

Light released by a distant star does not simply wink out after crossing some threshold of space. In a vacuum, photons keep moving indefinitely, and astronomers routinely detect light that has ...

For much of the twentieth century, scientists expected the expanding universe to slow over time. The opposite turned out to be true. Space is stretching faster today than in the past, and the precise ...

Astronomers have detected ordered magnetic fields in galaxies so young that conventional models struggle to explain how those ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has revolutionized astronomy in just two years of operations, but how can it see a galaxy 33.8 billion light-years away in a universe that is only 13.8 billion years old ...