On the night of Oct. 5, 1923, Edwin Hubble observed a strange star that flickered in intensity at regular intervals. The star ...

What is the meaning of life? Even the best of us couldn't hope to answer that question in a Universe Today article. But there ...

HELOCs, or home equity lines of credit, give homeowners a way to leverage the growing value of their house for anything from renovations to college tuition — and enjoy 10 years of interest-only ...

Home equity is the portion of a house that the homeowner holds outright — the difference between the house's value and the total amount they owe on the home. As their equity increases, homeowners can ...

For decades, astronomers have been trying to nail down the value of the Hubble constant—a measure of how fast the universe is expanding. But some cosmologists say there’s evidence that the universe is ...

The gravitationally lensed supernova Refsdal appeared in multiple images produced through gravitational lensing by a massive foreground galaxy cluster. After the supernova appeared in 2014, lens ...

Professor Wendy Freedman was awarded the National Medal of Science last month for her work in cosmology and astronomy and her research on the Hubble constant. According to the U.S. National Science ...

In the grand puzzle of the cosmos, one question continues to defy easy answers: how fast is the universe expanding? Astronomers have tried two main methods to figure it out, but their numbers don’t ...