A new theory published late last year is offering an explanation as to why our universe is expanding at an accelerating rate.

The Vera C. Rubin Observatory is set to revolutionize our understanding of the cosmos by detecting millions of exploding ...

A new study published in Scientific Reports simulates particle creation in an expanding universe using IBM quantum computers, ...

Evidence supporting this theory includes the cosmic microwave background, a faint "echo" of the universe's early expansion that scientists can study in detail. While the Big Bang Theory is widely ...

Approximately 13.8 billion years ago, the universe originated from a singularity, swiftly expanding and cooling to create the ...

Dark energy is still a mystery, but powerful new telescopes are set to uncover clues. With NASA and ESA leading the charge, ...

The universe still is expanding and cooling, leaving fossil evidence from what happened as the universe expanded. These fossils are the evidence that our universe really is evolving. Yet the theory of ...

Researchers have successfully simulated particle creation in an expanding universe using IBM's advanced quantum computers.

When Einstein's theory of gravity ... In 1929, when Hubble convinced Einstein that the universe was expanding, the physicist consigned the cosmological constant to the theoretical trash can ...

June 30, 2021 — Our universe is expanding, but our two main ways to measure how fast this expansion is happening have resulted in different answers. An astronomer gives an overview of the most ...

He deduced that if Einstein's theory were true (and there had been good evidence for it since 1919), it meant the universe must be expanding. In 1927, the year he got his PhD from MIT, LeMaitre ...