Astronomers working with NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope have produced the sharpest wide-area map of dark matter ever ...
Last year, cosmologists working on the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) reported hints that the mysterious dark energy thought to be driving the expansion of the universe may be weakening ...
Scientists studying a mysterious effect called cosmic birefringence—a subtle twist in the polarization of the universe’s oldest light—have developed a new way to reduce uncertainty in how it’s ...
For decades, astronomers wondered why most nearby galaxies are speeding away from the Milky Way instead of being pulled in by its gravity. New simulations reveal the answer: our galaxy sits in a ...
Two new studies have measured the expansion of the universe in our immediate cosmic neighborhood using a novel method that ...
The research makes use of data coming from telescopes deep in the Milky Way.
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 ...
This brings us a huge leap forward in our understanding of the universe.
Space-time is being driven apart. Every second that passes, the universe expands faster and faster. What is propelling this dramatic acceleration is an enigma, though – one scientists have known about ...
The local universe may be expanding more slowly than previously thought, a discovery that could relieve a pesky discrepancy ...