The universe seems to be spinning, and that could explain what dark energy is and why it's weakening while revealing our ...

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope shows off an infrared view of the spiral galaxy M51, dubbed the Whirlpool Galaxy. In simplest terms, the rate at which the universe expands on paper doesn’t match actual ...

Scientists propose that the entire universe might be spinning very slowly (0.002 rotations per billion years), which could explain why different methods of measuring cosmic expansion give conflicting ...

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), launched in 2022, continues to reshape how we view the cosmos. Designed to look deeper into space and further back in time than any previous instrument, it has ...

A new study in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society by researchers including István Szapudi of the University of Hawaiʻi Institute for Astronomy suggests the universe may rotate—just ...

A slowly spinning universe could resolve a puzzle in physics known as the Hubble tension, a new model suggests. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s ...

Space is packed with all sorts of weird and unexpected stuff, but this humongous, spinning string-thing raises a whole new set of questions. Reading time 3 minutes Composite image showing the massive ...

Rotating razor-thin galaxy string found 140 million light-years away shows many galaxies spinning with their filament, hinting that large structures shape galaxy rotation. Cosmic filaments are the ...