In the end, the Universe becomes a place where gravity and quantum physics slowly turn all mass into faint streams of particles.

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 ends, though, is an open question. The path forward depends on the ...

Most people have never heard of vacuum decay, but if it happened it would be the biggest natural disaster in the universe. Sure, an asteroid could destroy a city or wipe out life on Earth. A supernova ...

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Looking Up is transcribed using a combination of AI speech recognition and human editors. It may contain errors. Please check the corresponding audio before quoting in print. Dean Regas: Astronomers ...

Scientists at Radboud University say the universe will fade out far sooner than once believed, not in 10¹¹⁰⁰ years, but in ...

This just in: The end is near(er) than we thought. Turn back the ultimate doomsday clock by more than a thousand megaannum — that’s the millennium equivalent of 1 million years — so 1,000 megaannum ...

This image provided by NSF’s NOIRLab shows the trails of stars above Kitt Peak National Observatory, where a telescope is mapping the universe to study a mysterious force called dark energy. (NSF’s ...

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 - ...