The universe is expanding faster than previously thought, according to a team of astronomers using the Hubble Telescope. How much faster? Five to nine percent faster. Initially the expansion of the ...

For almost a century, we have known that the universe is expanding. For several decades, evidence has suggested that the expansion of the universe is accelerating. Crucial to those estimates were the ...

For years, we’ve believed that the universe is a vast, uniform expanse, with the same properties stretching across the cosmos. But what if that’s not the case? A surprising new discovery suggests that ...