Scientists are testing a novel way to measure cosmic expansion using time delays in gravitationally lensed quasars. Their ...

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A newly-detected spinning galaxy filament is reshaping our understanding of cosmic structure, gas flows, and the origins of ...

The universe’s expansion rate was supposed to be a solved problem, yet the latest high precision map of the early cosmos has ...

In this day and age, on the surface level, it seems like we know a lot about how the world, the human body, and the universe ...

It’s always amazing, and more than a little humbling, when the universe reminds us that our “common sense” is provincial, ...

A team of astronomers from the International Center for Radio Astronomy Research (ICRAR) has released new data from an ...

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 ...

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 ...

The cruciform structure discovered. Credit: Takeshi Inomata/University of Arizona An international team of archaeologists, led by the University of Arizona, has discovered at the Aguada Fénix site a ...

In the first full quarter of operation, Comcast‘s Epic Universe theme park drove double-digit gains for the company’s theme park unit. And executives expect that contribution to only increase. The ...