Everything started with the Big Bang. Most astrophysicists agree that the force generated by the Big Bang continues to push stars, planets, and galaxies apart from each other as our universe expands.

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Dark energy is one of the most mysterious concepts in all of the cosmos. We know very little about what it is but it just might play an overwhelming role in the death of the universe. Often referred ...

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For centuries, people have looked to the stars, asking how it all began—and how it might end. Now, thanks to a bold new study by physicists from Cornell University, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, and ...

If you’re having trouble sleeping at night, have you tried to induce total existential dread by contemplating the end of the entire Universe? If not, here’s a rundown of five ideas exploring how “all ...

The Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) in Arizona may show that dark energy is weakening. This preliminary data is just one year of DESI’s planned five, but at high precision for this field.

If the universe as we know it started with the Big Bang, will it also have an end? If the universe as we know it started with the Big Bang, will it also have an end? And if it’s going to end someday - ...

IN ARIZONA, AT Kitt Peak National Observatory, a telescope has spent three years building a three-dimensional map of the heavens. In examining the light from tens of millions of galaxies, the Dark ...

Astrophysicists have presumed for nearly a century that the universe will just keep expanding for all eternity, driven by an invisible force called dark energy. But new data suggest that this is ...