Take a deep breath: the universe is not just big it’s mind-bogglingly, practically scandalously huge. And it’s growing. A ...

What we saw in the DESI experiments, and now strengthened by our South Pole Telescope observations, is that dark energy is ...

Astro Brief is a collaboration between KSMU, the Missouri Space Grant, and MSU's Department of Physics, Astronomy and ...

Is the Hubble constant—a key part of how we measure the expansion of our universe—in a crisis? Some cosmologists say yes.

Nowadays, the dark of night is interspersed with the light of stars. But before the stars were born, did light shine at the ...

India's contributions to mathematics are well-documented. The concept of zero, the decimal system, algebra, and trigonometry ...

Historically, the Hubble constant was introduced by Edwin Hubble in 1929, marking a major breakthrough in our understanding of the expanding Universe. Since then, refining its value has become a ...

Albert Einstein's century-old static universe theory has been debunked by astronomers who now confirm an ever-expanding cosmos without a centre or edge.

The size of the universe is a question that has fascinated humanity for centuries. From ancient astronomers to modern scientists, the quest to understand the true scale of space has led to ...

For a long time the universe was assumed to be static, a potentially infinite pool of space that is neither expanding nor contracting. But during the 1920s, astronomer Edwin Hubble began measuring ...

Ever since Astronomer Edwin Hubble discovered in 1928 that the great galaxies, thinly scattered through space, are fleeing from one another, scientists have tried to explain the expanding universe ...

Having four years previously figured out that Andromeda — a fuzzy blob to the naked eye in dark skies — was an "island universe" (in other words, a galaxy), American astronomer Edwin Hubble ...