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 ...

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

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 ...

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, ...

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

How Stephen Hawking flip-flopped on whether the Universe has a beginning More specifically, the book focuses on the Hubble constant, the measured rate of the Universe’s expansion — a key parameter in ...

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, ...