Many scientists now believe that the universe is expanding at an accelerating pace, but this phenomenon was first discovered by Adam Riess, a Nobel Prize-winning astrophysicist. Riess spoke at Bovard ...

Adam Riess, an internationally renowned observational cosmologist working on the measurement of the expansion of the universe and a recipient of the 2011 Nobel Prize in physics, has been named a ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Andréa Morris reports on emergent intelligence in diverse systems. Adam Riess opens his inbox to find an email from someone he’s ...

Exploding stars, called supernovae, that are three-quarters of the way across the universe have helped astrophysicists discover that the universe has expanded at different rates over its cosmic ...

Last year, the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) released its most detailed map of the universe yet. And with it, sent ripples through the cosmology community. The results suggested that ...

A group of Johns Hopkins cosmology theorists has offered a theory that the cause of the so-called "Hubble Tension" in cosmology may be resolved by the presence of a new exotic form of matter in the ...

A long-awaited study of the cosmic expansion rate suggests that when it comes to the Hubble tension, cosmologists are still missing something. Nearly a century ago, Edwin Hubble discovered that the ...