A new study published in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society suggests that the universe's expansion may be slowing down, contrary to the widely held belief that it is rapidly expanding.

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There is an important and unresolved tension in cosmology regarding the rate at which the universe is expanding, and ...

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It is widely thought that our universe is expanding at an ever-accelerating rate. But could we have that wrong? That is what a group of scientists from South Korea claims, but other scientists have ...

Knotted structures once imagined by Lord Kelvin may actually have shaped the universe’s earliest moments, according to new ...

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. "Remarkable" findings published today in ...

How fast is the universe expanding? This is what a recent study published in The Astrophysical Journal hopes to address as a team of scientists investigated to see if what’s known as the Standard ...

No one knows what kicked off the Big Bang that eventually allowed the stars to begin forming. Adolf Schaller for STScI, CC BY How can a Big Bang have been the start of the universe, since intense ...

The expansion rate of the universe may be slowing down, rather than accelerating at an ever-growing rate, a potentially groundbreaking new study has hinted. The suggestion challenges both the 2011 ...