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

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

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 ...

Whether the universe will "end" at all is not certain, but all evidence suggests it will continue being humanity's cosmic ...

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 ...

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IT IS ONE of the biggest mysteries in cosmology—and getting bigger all the time. Ever since Edwin Hubble, an American astronomer, published observations of distant galaxies in 1929, scientists have ...

The universe is expanding. But how fast? Why is this happening? And what will be the universe’s ultimate fate? These are big, literally cosmic questions, and astronomers continue to struggle to nail ...

The universe, which originated 14 billion years ago in the Big Bang, remains to evolve. Stars and galaxies form, age, and ...

Alex Hall receives funding from The Royal Society. It is almost 100 years since scientists discovered the universe is expanding. In the decades that followed, the accuracy of the measurements, and ...