Scientists have many big questions to tackle about the universe, including how big it actually is. But even the proposed ...

When you bake a loaf of bread or a batch of muffins, you put the dough into a pan. As the dough bakes in the oven, it expands into the baking pan. Any chocolate chips or blueberries in the muffin ...

The surface of Earth is finite. We can measure it. If it was expanding, then its size would grow with time. And once again, ...

The universe's expansion is similar to a balloon inflating; the surface expands, causing dots (galaxies) to move apart. Galaxies farther away from us appear to recede faster than closer ones. The ...

The universe's expansion is accelerating, a phenomenon attributed to dark energy, potentially explained by a cosmological constant (Λ) in Einstein's general relativity. The ΛCDM model, the standard ...

What is the universe made of? This question has driven astronomers for hundreds of years. For the past quarter of a century, scientists have believed "normal" stuff like atoms and molecules that make ...

The universe — everything in existence — is expanding every second! It's only been about a hundred years that humanity has known this, too — that most galaxies are traveling away from us and the ...

Quinnipiac University provides funding as a member of The Conversation US. When you bake a loaf of bread or a batch of muffins, you put the dough into a pan. As the dough bakes in the oven, it expands ...