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 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 ...

Evidence of this quantum layer may be coming soon. Here’s what you’ll learn in this story: Physicists are still puzzling over ...

Researchers have unveiled a new model for the universe’s birth that replaces cosmic inflation with gravitational waves as the ...

How did the universe come into being? There are a multitude of theories on this subject. In a Physical Review Letters paper, ...

If the universe is expanding, then what is it expanding into, and what is it expanding from? Where's the edge of the universe ...

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

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 ...

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

The universe could end in a Big Crunch, where gravity reverses expansion, heating everything to thousands of degrees before collapsing all matter into a single point.