For a generation, cosmologists have worked with a simple story: the universe is not only expanding, it is expanding faster ...

AUSTIN, Texas — An international team of astronomers led by Fritz Benedict and Barbara McArthur of The University of Texas at Austin has used Hubble Space Telescope to solve one of the biggest ...

The Nature Index 2025 Research Leaders — previously known as Annual Tables — reveal the leading institutions and countries/territories in the natural and health sciences, according to their output in ...

Astronomers have taken a hard new look at how fast the universe is expanding and arrived at a disquieting conclusion. The latest observations from the James Webb Space Telescope and the Hubble Space ...

The cosmic distance ladder is the world’s longest ruler, built to measure the universe. Since the time of the ancient Greeks, scientists have been constructing a cosmic measuring tape to measure the ...

It’s a bit mind-bending to realise that everything we know about the scale of the universe comes from people stuck on a tiny rock, peering through glass at dots of light. We can’t exactly pull out a ...