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 ...

Travel back 390 million years after the big bang to the ancient Maisie's Galaxy in this stunning 3D visualization that ...

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When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. New results from the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) suggest that the unknown force ...

Dark energy is one of the most mysterious concepts in all of the cosmos. We know very little about what it is but it just might play an overwhelming role in the death of the universe. Often referred ...

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

Researchers have unveiled a new model for the universe’s birth that replaces cosmic inflation with gravitational waves as the ...

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Cosmic inflation tries to describe one brief but crucial phase in the Big Bang that launched the universe onto its expansion course. Credit: Christine Daniloff / MIT / ESA / Hubble / NASA Many ...