The universe is full of surprises, and Saul Perlmutter knows that better than most. A professor of physics at UC Berkeley and a senior scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Perlmutter ...
A major new analysis challenges recent claims that the universe's expansion is slowing, finding that the evidence for cosmic acceleration remains strong. The findings preserve the leading role of dark ...
A major international effort has produced an ultra-precise measurement of the Universe’s expansion rate, confirming it’s faster than early-Universe models predict. By linking multiple ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A section of the Cat’s Paw Nebula, a star-forming region composed of gas, dust, and young stars, in this image obtained by the ...
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 ...
A new international analysis published in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society reinforces one of modern cosmology’s most striking discoveries: the universe is not only expanding, but ...
New paper argues we don't need new physics to explain the expansion of the universe when the cosmos was young. Today is another story.
Newswise — Astronomers have sought to measure the expansion rate of the Universe using two fundamentally different approaches. One method relies on measuring distances to stars and galaxies in the ...
DESI and DES studied dark energy. Together, what can they tell us? Last year, DESI made headlines when its map of the Universe suggested dark energy, the force driving cosmic expansion, might not be ...
An international collaboration of astronomers has produced one of the most precise measurements yet of how fast the local Universe is expanding. The result deepens one of the most significant ...
Artist’s interpretation of the cosmic distance ladder — a succession of overlapping methods used to measure distances across the Universe, where each rung of the ladder provides information that can ...