Stephen DiKerby receives funding from the National Science Foundation. Whether the universe will “end” at all is not certain, but all evidence suggests it will continue being humanity’s cosmic home ...

The surface of Earth is finite. We can measure it. If it was expanding, then its size would grow with time. And once again, good ol' Earth helps us understand what the universe might be doing beyond ...

An expanding universe complicates this picture just a little bit, because the universe absolutely refuses to be straightforward. Objects are still emitting light, and that light takes time to travel ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: A new paper adjusts an equation that defines our universe in response to recent new data. The cosmological constant, which describes how our universe ...

It is widely thought that our universe is expanding at an ever-accelerating rate. But could we have that wrong? That is what a group of scientists from South Korea claims, but other scientists have ...

The interactive online map, created using data from NASA's James Webb Space Telescope, details some 800,000 galaxies across a vast cosmic distance. Scrolling and zooming in can take users some 13.5 ...

This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features the spiral galaxy Messier 77, also known as the Squid Galaxy. CREDIT: ESA/Hubble & NASA, L. C. Ho, D. Thilker. Get the Popular Science daily ...

New research by the Atacama Cosmology Telescope (ACT) collaboration has produced the clearest images yet of the universe’s infancy — the earliest cosmic time yet accessible to humans. The researchers ...

WASHINGTON, Dec 9 (Reuters) - Fresh corroboration of the perplexing observation that the universe is expanding more rapidly than expected has scientists pondering the cause - perhaps some unknown ...

Quinnipiac University provides funding as a member of The Conversation US. 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 ...

Marvel’s Ultimate Universe is one of the hottest topics in the world of comics right now. Since making its return in 2023, the Ultimate line has quickly become a huge critical and commercial success ...

The universe's expansion is similar to a balloon inflating; the surface expands, causing dots (galaxies) to move apart. Galaxies farther away from us appear to recede faster than closer ones. The ...