On human timescales, the universe may as well be eternal. It’ll be here long after our species and our planet are gone, but ...

We know how the universe began. An event we call the Big Bang started it all about 13.8 billion years ago. How the universe ...

After a century of observations spanning the breadth of the cosmos and theoretical insights that push humanity's vision of ...

A Cornell physicist calculated new data from dark energy reviews, indicating the end of the universe within a few billion ...

If ultimately true, the universe will reach its maximum size around 11 billion years from now. At that point, physics (and ...

According to the equations that govern black holes, the larger one of these cosmic behemoths is the lower its average density ...

The early universe was already warm before reionization, revealing that the first stars did not flicker on in an icy cosmos.

A research team led by Rice University physicist Frank Geurts has successfully measured the temperature of quark-gluon plasma ...