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

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 ...

Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum Fields and Fundamental Forces from Imperial College London.

The theorists predict that the beginning of the end will be in about 10 billion years — less than the present age of the universe. Tantalizing evidence hints that dark energy might be evolving, ...

The universe’s first molecule just surprised us again. In a discovery that could rewrite our understanding of how the first stars formed, researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics ...

UChicago-led study analyzes massive galaxy clusters mapped by the Dark Energy Survey, offers new way to probe cosmic laws ...

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

About 13.8 billion years ago, the newborn universe was a blazing sea of energy and particles. Within minutes of the Big Bang, conditions had cooled enough for the very first atoms—mostly hydrogen, ...