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The universe may be lopsided, new research says

But there are several important anomalies, including a widely debated one called the Hubble tension. It is named after Edwin Hubble, who is credited with having discovered in 1929 that the universe is ...
To astronomers in the 1990s, these three facts were self-evident: The universe is expanding; all the matter in the universe is gravitationally attracting all the other matter in the universe; ...
The Universe has long been cast as effectively immortal, coasting into a cold, dark eternity so distant that it might as well ...
The rapid acceleration of the universe’s expansion continues to challenge our understanding of fundamental physics. Why the ...
The universe's expansion may actually have started to slow rather than accelerating at an ever-increasing rate as previously thought, a new study suggests. Subscribe to our newsletter for the latest ...
Nearly everything in the universe is made of mysterious dark matter and dark energy, yet we can’t see either of them directly ...
A new Utah Valley University study is providing new evidence in a debate astronomers across the world haven’t been able to agree on — how fast the universe is expanding. The findings may add more fuel ...
In an unprecedented step, researchers crafted a detailed model compatible with the universe’s accelerated expansion.
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features the spiral galaxy Messier 77, also known as the Squid Galaxy. Everything on ...
Researchers in Germany argue that a modified theory of gravity could explain universal expansion, removing dark energy from ...
In the grand puzzle of the cosmos, one question continues to defy easy answers: how fast is the universe expanding? Astronomers have tried two main methods to figure it out, but their numbers don’t ...
The universe’s expansion might not be accelerating but slowing down, a new study suggests. If confirmed, the finding would upend decades of established astronomical assumptions and rewrite our ...