The oldest stars in the Milky Way are forcing a fresh look at one of cosmology’s biggest arguments. If some of them are about ...

Astronomers studying the Milky Way's oldest stars have estimated that the Universe is about 13.6 billion years old.

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

Elena Tomasetti of the University of Bologna discusses her team's calculation of the estimated age of the universe in an exclusive interview with Starlust.

A new study has estimated the universe’s possible age by using precise data on stars.

Using gravitational waves as a measure of the universe's rate of expansion could solve the biggest headache in physics, the ...

Researchers from the University of Bologna and the Leibniz Institute for Astrophysics Potsdam (AIP) along with other institutes have proposed a new way to address the Hubble tension by comparing ...

Ripples in the fabric of space-time called gravitational waves may be the key to solving the Hubble tension — one of the biggest nagging problems in physics.

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On the night of Oct. 5 to 6, 1923, Edwin Hubble discovered a new star — and revealed the utter vastness of the universe. Hubble was looking at the cosmos with the 100-inch Hooker telescope at the ...