On human timescales, the universe may as well be eternal. It’ll be here long after our species and our planet are gone, but it does have an end. The generally accepted long-term evolution of the ...

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 ...

According to the equations that govern black holes, the larger one of these cosmic behemoths is the lower its average density – given that the universe contains a lot of relatively empty space, could ...

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 ...

If recent discoveries that dark energy is evolving hold any water, our Universe will collapse under its own gravity on a ...

When discussing the scale of the universe, we’re immediately faced with an intriguing question: are we tiny beings, or is the ...

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

In 1867, Lord Kelvin imagined atoms as knots in the aether. The idea was soon disproven. Atoms turned out to be something ...

The first trailer for Scream 7 brings back Neve Campbell and Courteney Cox for another horrifying instalment of the biggest ...

Astrophysicists have presumed for nearly a century that the universe will just keep expanding for all eternity, driven by an invisible force called dark energy. But new data suggest that this is ...

Tel Aviv scientists predict ancient radio signals from the early Universe that could reveal how dark matter shaped stars and ...