A team of physicists has proposed that the Big Bang did not mark the absolute beginning of everything but instead occurred inside a collapsing black hole, meaning our entire universe may exist within ...

For the last 25 years, most scientists have believed that about 70% of the universe is formed by something called ‘’dark energy.’’ This invisible energy was ...

We’ve been told by science that the universe is expanding relentlessly, driven by a mysterious force called dark energy.

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Dark energy is one of those cosmological features that we are still learning about. While we can't see it directly, we can most famously observe its effects on the universe—primarily how it is causing ...

Although some compelling evidence exists to support the idea that a repulsive force similar to dark energy exists, it has yet to be directly observed or measured. To circumvent this uncomfortable ...

You might think galaxies can’t ever find each other in our runaway cosmos, but it turns out gravity can sometimes overcome ...

Physicist Sean Carroll explains how physics, astronomy, philosophy, and classics all help us understand the expanding ...

Our humble blue planet came into being with the Big Bang — the sudden expansion of the universe outwards. Now, according to astrophysicists and cosmologists, Earth and all of its celestial siblings ...

A new astrophysics study predicts the universe could eventually collapse in a “Big Crunch” about 20 billion years from now. The research, led by Cornell University physicist Henry ...

New observations from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) suggest the cosmos may be much older than once believed. For decades, scientists have held that the universe is about 13.8 billion years old ...