A mysterious force called Dark Energy might be changing, in a way that challenges our current understanding of the nature of ...

Not only are scientists unsure how the universe will end, they aren't even sure it will end at all. Several possibilities for the fate of our universe have been bandied about. They tend to have names ...

Everything started with the Big Bang. Most astrophysicists agree that the force generated by the Big Bang continues to push stars, planets, and galaxies apart from each other as our universe expands.

This is the way the world ends: not with a bang but a higher harmonic generation. The same researchers who used exotic substances called metamaterials to make a benchtop Big Bang have mimicked the end ...

From asteroid strikes to alien invasions, doomsday theories about Earth’s end have long captured our imagination. But scientists now suggest one chilling scenario rooted in real physics and they've ...

A new study predicts the Universe will stop expanding in 11 billion years and collapse in a "Big Crunch" around 20 billion years from now. With the five-match series tied at 1-1 ahead of the Boxing ...

Tamara Davis receives funding from the Australian Research Council. What’s more likely - that the universe will expand forever, or that it will contract in a big crunch, causing the end of the cosmos?

One of the biggest advances of the 20th century has been to identify exactly how rich, expansive, and massive our Universe actually is. With approximately two trillion galaxies contained in a volume ...

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