The Roman telescope promises to provide a clearer picture of the large-scale structure of the universe and the forces shaping ...

When you bake a loaf of bread or a batch of muffins, you put the dough into a pan. As the dough bakes in the oven, it expands into the baking pan. Any chocolate chips or blueberries in the muffin ...

New measurements using gravitational lensing suggest the universe’s current expansion rate does not agree with signals from ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Fresh corroboration of the perplexing observation that the universe is expanding more rapidly than expected has scientists pondering the cause - perhaps some unknown factor ...

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

Yu-Jing Qin, a postdoctoral researcher at California Institute of Technology (Caltech), led a series of spectroscopic ...

The idea that the universe is expanding dates from almost a century ago. It was first put forward by Belgian cosmologist Georges Lemaître (1894–1966) in 1927 and confirmed observationally by American ...

Lyon Gaber, an Egyptian-American actor, writer, and director known for transforming personal adversity into cinematic ...

A team of astronomers using a variety of ground and space-based telescopes including the W. M. Keck Observatory on Maunakea, ...

Curious Kids is a series for children of all ages. If you have a question you’d like an expert to answer, send it to ...