Cosmic ‘big crunch’ may end universe in 20 billion years: Physicist
The universe may not expand forever as scientists once believed. According to new calculations by Cornell physicist Henry…
Most detailed universe simulation yet: ESA’s Euclid project maps 3.4 billion galaxies
The catalogue describes each galaxy using more than 400 properties, including brightness, shape, velocity, and star formation rate.…
The moment astronomers realised the universe is growing at a mind-bending speed
Before 1998, models of the universe’s future leaned towards gravitational slowing, perhaps culminating in collapse. After the discovery,…
The observable universe is just 5% of reality, 95% remains invisible!
Ordinary matter, also called baryonic matter, consists of protons, neutrons, and electrons. This is the material that emits…
DESI Hints Dark Energy Isn’t What We Thought
The Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument is mounted on the U.S. National Science Foundation’s Nicholas U. Mayall 4-meter Telescope…
Is the universe infinite? Scientists reveal how vast it really is..
One of the strongest indicators of this limit is the cosmic microwave background radiation, faint afterglow from the…
Observable universe is 93 billion light years wide but what’s beyond it? Here’s what we can’t see…
One of the most important pieces of evidence for this limit is the cosmic microwave background radiation, faint…
Black holes that transform matter into dark energy could solve ‘cosmic hiccups’ mystery
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When stars die, black holes possibly turn their remains into dark energy
On a quiet mountaintop in southern Arizona, 5,000 robotic eyes scan the sky every night, each locking onto…
Black Holes Are the Elusive Source of the Universe’s Dark Energy, Study Argues
Dark energy—the hypothetical force accelerating our universe’s expansion—sometimes raises more questions than it answers. A new study, however,…
What if we’ve been thinking about dark matter all wrong, scientist wonders
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