Scientists have devised a new method of measuring the rate of expansion of the universe. According to the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, the research paper was accepted for publication on ...

For nearly a century, astronomers have known that the universe is expanding. In the late 1990s, two independent teams, the ...

The universe is expanding 'too fast', a study has warned – and scientists have no idea why. An international team of astronomers have carried out some of the most precise measurements yet of how ...

The expansion of the universe is still accelerating under the influence of dark energy, despite recent claims to the contrary.

The universe is stretching apart faster than our current theories of physics can explain, and a new study has just confirmed that the discrepancy is not a fluke. By funneling decades of data into the ...

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An era of precision gravitational astronomy has arrived, and UT physicists are helping lead the way. Researcher working on one of the mirrors of the Virgo gravitational wave detector. Photo credit: ...

A difference of a few kilometers per second might not sound like much. In cosmology, it has become one of the field's most stubborn problems. An international team of astronomers has now delivered one ...

Using a new framework, astronomers arrived at the most precise measurement of our universe’s expansion rate—but things still don’t add up, they say. Reading time 3 minutes One major, unsolved problem ...

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