Astronomers working with the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument, known as DESI, have found growing hints that dark energy, ...

The rate of the universe’s expansion has vexed astronomers for decades. Called the Hubble constant, the figure is quite different depending on how you get to it—fittingly, a source of constant ...

Learn how Hubble is measuring the expansion rate of the Universe in this new explainer from NASA's Goddard Space Flight ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An image taken by the Hubble Space Telescope in July 2025 of Abell 209, a massive spacetime-warping cluster of galaxies located ...

The local universe may be expanding more slowly than previously thought, a discovery that could relieve a pesky discrepancy ...

(blue; the yellow dots represent individual galaxies). The Milky Way (green) lies in an area with little matter. The galaxies in the bubble move in the direction of the higher matter densities (red ...

The greatest puzzle in cosmology just got even more puzzling. Images from the James Webb Space Telescope have confirmed that the universe appears to be expanding significantly faster than it should be ...

Recent measurements from JWST have confirmed the validity of the “Hubble tension.” The Hubble tension stems from the fact that measuring the Hubble constant—the rate of the universe’s expansion—two ...

The new study used the known distance to a galaxy called M106/NGC 4258 — a spiral galaxy in the constellation Canes Venatici — as a reference point. The universe is expanding faster than astronomers ...

Over the past decade, two very different ways of calculating the rate at which the universe is expanding have come to be at odds, a disagreement dubbed the Hubble tension, after 20th-century ...

It's well established that the universe is expanding, but there's serious disagreement among scientists over how fast it's happening. Two of our best ways of measuring the cosmic expansion rate, the ...