Led by doctoral student Tatsuya Kotani and Professor Tomoharu Oka from Keio University, the research team measured 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 ...

The Big Bang theory has dominated our understanding of the universe’s origin for almost 100 years. It describes a moment when ...

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

The universe's first galaxies were hot messes, according to a recent study. During their younger days, they were wild, ...

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

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

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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 ...

The Cosmic Microwave Background carries with it a record of events throughout the 13.8-billion-year history of the universe. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...

This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features the spiral galaxy Messier 77, also known as the Squid Galaxy. CREDIT: ESA/Hubble & NASA, L. C. Ho, D. Thilker. Get the Popular Science daily ...