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

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

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

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...