The universe is expanding faster today than early cosmic measurements appear to allow. A proposed reversal in dark energy once seemed capable of closing that gap, but a sharper statistical test finds ...

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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 ...

Research by the Atacama Cosmology Telescope collaboration has led to the clearest and most precise images yet of the universe’s infancy, the cosmic microwave background radiation that was visible only ...

All the tech we rely on, from cars to smartphones, was engineered using physics. You don’t need to know the science to use these things. But a well-rounded human should understand at least some of the ...

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A long-awaited study of the cosmic expansion rate suggests that when it comes to the Hubble tension, cosmologists are still missing something. Nearly a century ago, Edwin Hubble discovered that the ...

So much for “eternal ice.” The poles are melting and temperatures in the Arctic are rising between two to three times faster than the global average. Warmer temperatures are breaking up sea ice, ...

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