The local universe may be expanding more slowly than previously thought, a discovery that could relieve a pesky discrepancy ...

A novel theory suggests that the current expansion rate of the universe is not fixed, but was in fact quite different in the ...

A team of astronomers from NASA have detected several strange and unexplained "little red dots" that are travelling through ...

These are the largest images of the universe ever taken. They come from the Euclid space telescope which is trying to create a 3D map of the universe. That map will help us understand how our universe ...

The universe went in “extreme slow motion” at its beginning, and has dramatically sped up since, scientists have found. The discovery, predicted by Einstein’s general theory of relativity, was finally ...

The Hubble Space Telescope has reached a new milestone in its work to find out how quickly the universe is expanding – and it supports the idea that something strange is happening in our universe, ...

Champagne supernova: the Crab nebula in extraordinary detail, in an image created by combining visible light and other data from several telescopes, among them Hubble. Photograph: Space Telescope ...

Light released by a distant star does not simply wink out after crossing some threshold of space. In a vacuum, photons keep moving indefinitely, and astronomers routinely detect light that has ...

Ever since Neil Armstrong took his ‘small step for man’, the visual identity of space exploration has been powered by data. Indeed, space’s accessibility has always revolved around the significance ...