A slowly spinning universe could resolve a puzzle in physics known as the Hubble tension, a new model suggests.

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At the Seismological Society of America's Annual Meeting, researchers posed a seemingly simple question: how wide are faults?

Scientists found new evidence that Earth’s crust is peeling underneath the Sierra Nevada in California. The process might be ...

The discovery was made on a massive exoplanet known as K2-18b that for years has captivated scientists searching for life ...

A faint cosmic spin – one rotation per 500 billion years – could resolve the stubborn Hubble tension by tweaking standard ...

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About half of the non-dark matter in the universe cannot be accounted for by stars and galaxies alone. Now, scientists say ...

U.S. team of researchers detected signs of two chemicals in the planet's atmosphere long considered to be "biosignatures" ...

In simplest terms, the rate at which the universe expands on paper doesn’t match actual astronomical observations. That speed ...