Until recently, Type Ia supernovae have been treated by cosmologists as the gold standard of cosmic distance determination: quite uniform “standard candles” whose peak brightness was reliable over all ...

Current physics is speeding toward a breaking point, as astronomers confirm that the Hubble tension in new data.

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 ...

Scientists are testing a novel way to measure cosmic expansion using time delays in gravitationally lensed quasars. Their ...

Dark matter is special in that it doesn't emit, absorb or interact with light, so science had to find a more creative way to ...

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

In the leading model of cosmology, most of the universe is invisible: a combined 95% is made of dark matter and dark energy.

FROSTI is a new adaptive optics system that precisely corrects distortions in LIGO’s mirrors caused by extreme laser power.

There are 15 mysterious stone altars in Hogwarts Legacy that later reveal themselves to be Astronomy Tables. While you may come across them in the Highlands very early in your quest, you cannot use ...

The expansion rate of the universe may be slowing down, rather than accelerating at an ever-growing rate, a potentially groundbreaking new study has hinted. The suggestion challenges both the 2011 ...

New research suggests dark energy, the mysterious force accelerating the universe’s expansion, may not be constant after all. Credit: SciTechDaily.com Astrophysicists at the University of Chicago have ...

As demand for advanced training in astronomy surges, Carnegie Mellon University is launching a new Ph.D. designed to equip graduates with interdisciplinary skills for careers in academia, industry and ...