For over two decades, cosmologists have believed that the universe is expanding at an accelerating pace, driven by a ...

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 ...

Astronomers have known for decades that the universe is expanding. When they use telescopes to observe faraway galaxies, they see that these galaxies are moving away from Earth. To astronomers, the ...

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 ...

CHICAGO (CBS) -- It was 95 years ago that astronomer and University of Chicago alumnus Edwin Hubble made the discoveries that proved the universe is expanding—but the question of just how fast the ...

The universe is expanding faster and faster, but not all scientists agree that dark energy is the cause. Perhaps, instead, our universe keeps colliding with and absorbing smaller 'baby universes,' a ...

WASHINGTON >> Fresh corroboration of the perplexing observation that the universe is expanding more rapidly than expected has scientists pondering the cause — perhaps some unknown factor involving the ...

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

An expanding universe complicates this picture just a little bit, because the universe absolutely refuses to be straightforward. Objects are still emitting light, and that light takes time to travel ...

CHICAGO (CBS) -- Albert Einstein created a set of equations to predict the nature of our universe. Over a century later, unprecedented results from a group of scientists are consistent with his ...

Nobel laureate Dr. James Peebles will discuss the still-unanswered questions regarding the expansion of the universe, dark matter and more. We have good evidence that the universe we see around us is ...

A view of thousands of galaxies in the galaxy cluster MACS0416, combining data from the James Webb Space Telescope and the Hubble Space Telescope. NASA Something very strange is going on in the ...