See the iconic Pillars of Creation in this 3D visualization created from James Webb and Hubble Space Telescope data. Credits ...

Through the James Webb Space Telescope and the Hubble Telescope, it has been possible to confirm the expansion of the ...

The Hubble Space Telescope is one of the most famous scientific instruments that has ever existed. It’s given the world an ...

For humans, the most important star in the universe is our sun. The second-most important star is nestled inside the Andromeda galaxy. Don't go looking for it—the flickering star is 2.2 million ...

The Hubble tension is one of the biggest mysteries in cosmology. It centers around the Hubble constant—the measurement of how fast our universe is expanding—which comes out as two different numbers ...

The two keys to Edwin Hubble's breakthrough discovery were forged by others in the 1910s. The first key, the period-luminosity scale discovered by Henrietta Leavitt, allowed astronomers to calculate ...

Our universe appears to be expanding about eight percent faster than initially assumed possible, according to new observations from the James Webb Space Telescope. There has been a long-established ...

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The Hubble Space Telescope is the most capable astronomical instrument humanity has ever deployed. Over its quarter century of operation, it has made huge contributions to our understanding of the ...

The Universe really seems to be expanding fast. Too fast, even. A new measurement confirms what previous -- and highly debated -- results had shown: The Universe is expanding faster than predicted by ...

Astronomers have been confounded by recent evidence that the universe expanded at different rates throughout its life. New findings risk turning the tension into a crisis, scientists say. When you ...