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 ...
On July 4, 2012, researchers at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) in Switzerland announced with great fanfare that they had ...
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 ...
Such an exponential expansion may seem minor, but it is equivalent to a grape in the palm of your hand swelling to become ...
The Big Bang theory has dominated our understanding of the universe’s origin for almost 100 years. It describes a moment when ...
If it is a galaxy, it would be the oldest known galaxy in the cosmos, but it could also be a brown dwarf or an early black hole.
From our tiny part of space, it can be hard to image exactly how much is out there beyond the reaches of our solar system. But in reality, our Earth is just a tiny part of our solar system, itself ...
Scientists have developed a groundbreaking tool called Effort.jl that lets them simulate the structure of the universe using ...
Researchers have moved one step closer to solving one of science’s greatest mysteries—why the universe is filled with matter instead of nothing. Scientists at Indiana University have made a major ...
How did the universe come into being? There are a multitude of theories on this subject. In a Physical Review Letters paper, ...
A star found in the Large Magellanic Cloud is remarkably unpolluted by heavier elements, suggesting it is descended from the ...