Animation of the findings by researchers who used time-delay cosmography to independently confirm that the universe’s current ...

Our understanding of the true nature of the cosmos relies on measurements of its expansion, but cosmologists have been ...

It’s a powerful technique, but small uncertainties at each step can add up, something critics argue may be behind the Hubble ...

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 ...

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

For much of the twentieth century, scientists expected the expanding universe to slow over time. The opposite turned out to ...

The new study used the known distance to a galaxy called M106/NGC 4258 — a spiral galaxy in the constellation Canes Venatici — as a reference point. The universe is expanding faster than astronomers ...

New gravitational lensing measurements by the TDCOSMO Collaboration support the Hubble Tension, confirming differences between Early and Late Universe Hubble Constant values using updated ...

NASA has released a huge new report that astronomers are calling Hubble’s magnum opus. Analyzing 30 years of data from the famous space telescope, the new study makes the most precise measurement yet ...

Until just a century ago, our galaxy was thought to be the lone family of stars occupying the Cosmos. Philosophers, notably Immanuel Kant in the 18th Century, postulated the existence of other ...

A team of astronomers using a variety of ground and space-based telescopes including the W. M. Keck Observatory on Maunakea, Hawaiʻi Island, have made one of the most precise independent measurements ...