For decades, the Big Bang has been the reigning champion in explaining the universe's origin. It's the moment, roughly 13.8 ...

The end of the universe is tied to dark energy, astronomers claim, and one day the universe could implode on itself.

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If it’s true, this work could have ramifications for some of the biggest mysteries of the universe, including learning where ...

Mathematical evidence indicates that our universe is flat, but it could be infinitely big, as well. You can figure out if an ...

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Over the decades, physicists have compiled various lists of the most important fundamental constants. Generally, there are a ...

"The ultimate end of the universe comes much sooner than expected, but fortunately it still takes a very long time," Heino Falcke, a theoretical astrophysicist at the Radboud University in the ...

The current theory of how the Universe came into being can't explain the existence of the planets, stars and galaxies we see ...

We have long taken it for granted that gravity is one of the basic forces of nature – one of the invisible threads that keeps ...

Crucially, this bounce occurs entirely within the framework of general relativity, which applies on large scales such as ...

The universe may not have begun with the Big Bang as is generally thought but from the collapse of a massive black hole, a new theory suggests. At such a critical moment in US history, we need ...