After a century of observations spanning the breadth of the cosmos and theoretical insights that push humanity's vision 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 ...
A new study by physicists predicts that the universe could one day collapse in a reverse Big Bang, offering fresh insight into how it might all end.
For centuries, humanity has pondered the ultimate fate of the universe. From theories of infinite expansion to the concept of ...
This controversial theory says the universe is subject to an ultimate, higher-order law that we can’t comprehend.
The plot represents the new model with the x-axis and the y-axis showing the minimum sizes of collapsing and expanding regions that can impact cosmological measurements. The contours are independent ...
Astrophysicists have presumed for nearly a century that the universe will just keep expanding for all eternity, driven by an ...
IT IS ONE of the biggest mysteries in cosmology—and getting bigger all the time. Ever since Edwin Hubble, an American astronomer, published observations of distant galaxies in 1929, scientists have ...