Why is the universe expanding at an ever-increasing rate? This is one of the most exciting yet unresolved questions in modern ...
How did the universe come into being? There are a multitude of theories on this subject. In a Physical Review Letters paper, ...
Evidence of this quantum layer may be coming soon. Here’s what you’ll learn in this story: Physicists are still puzzling over ...
The Universe might not exist forever. New observations by physicists indicate that it will one day reach its maximum size ...
On human timescales, the universe may as well be eternal. It’ll be here long after our species and our planet are gone, but ...
Such an exponential expansion may seem minor, but it is equivalent to a grape in the palm of your hand swelling to become ...
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 ...
If recent discoveries that dark energy is evolving hold any water, our Universe will collapse under its own gravity on a ...
Theorists have found that a “warm” version of cosmic inflation is consistent with known physics, linking it to the hunt for ...
Most explanations rely on "dark energy" to explain the Universe's accelerating expansion rate, but a new study takes a different path.
In fact, the Euclid Consortium, the international group managing the European Space Agency's Euclid space telescope, just ...