cosmic expansion
Webb Continues to Confirm That Universe is Behaving Strangely
Over a century ago, astronomers Edwin Hubble and Georges Lemaitre independently discovered that the Universe was expanding. Since then, scientists…
Euclid Recovers From a Navigation Problem and Finds its Guide Stars Again
After a bit of a hiccup with its navigation system, Euclid has found its navigation stars and is pointed the…
ESA's Euclid Mission is Off to Explore the Dark Universe
The Euclid space telescope, the ESA's next-generation astrophysics mission, was successfully launched to space!
Two New Space Telescopes Will Bring Dark Energy Into Focus
The ESA's Euclid and NASA's Nancy Grace Roman space telescope will work together to resolve the mystery of cosmic expansion!
Are Black Holes the Source of Dark Energy?
In a series of papers, an international team claims they've found the first observational evidence that supermassive black holes are…
A Particle Physics Experiment Might Have Directly Observed Dark Energy
In a new study, a team of researchers proposed that Dark Matter detectors could also search for the elusive force…
NASA Continues to Try and Rescue Failing Hubble
The search for Hubble's error continues, and could involve some complex and risky operations really soon!
A Dark Matter map of our Local Cosmic Neighborhood
A new simulation by a team of astrophysicists has resulted in the most detailed 3D map of the cosmic web,…
Astronomers Improve Their Distance Scale for the Universe. Unfortunately, it Doesn't Resolve the Crisis in Cosmology
Astronomers have made the cosmic distant ladder more accurate, but that has only made the mystery of cosmic expansion even…
Gravitational lenses could be the key to measuring the expansion rate of the Universe
Nailing down cosmic expansion could depend on distant quasars, and the time it takes their light to reach us when…