Dark-energy evidence suggests the universe will end in a “big crunch” roughly 20 billion years from now. The universe is nearing the halfway point of what may be a 33-billion-year lifespan, according ...

Evidence of this quantum layer may be coming soon. Here’s what you’ll learn in this story: Physicists are still puzzling over ...

From our small blue planet to the farthest reaches of the observable cosmos, this breathtaking journey explores the true ...

“For our universe, it’s also interesting to know ... It’s good to know that, if the data holds up, the universe will have an end.” The Big Crunch had lost favor in recent decades with the discovery of ...

On human timescales, the universe may as well be eternal. It’ll be here long after our species and our planet are gone, but ...

If recent discoveries that dark energy is evolving hold any water, our Universe will collapse under its own gravity on a ...

How did the universe come into being? There are a multitude of theories on this subject. In a Physical Review Letters paper, ...

Scientists have found a remarkably small yet bright object from the early universe that doesn’t make sense in our existing models of how stars and galaxies formed, even our own Milky Way. That means ...

According to the equations that govern black holes, the larger one of these cosmic behemoths is the lower its average density – given that the universe contains a lot of relatively empty space, could ...

A faint radio "whisper" from ancient hydrogen reveals the universe was heating up long before it filled with starlight.

Tel Aviv scientists predict ancient radio signals from the early Universe that could reveal how dark matter shaped stars and ...

Earth and the surrounding Milky Way galaxy may be sitting inside a cosmic void—a "mysterious giant hole"—that could be speeding up the universe's expansion in our region compared to others, This is ...