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

For centuries, humanity has pondered the ultimate fate of the universe. From theories of infinite expansion to the concept of ...

We’ve grown up with the idea that the universe will expand forever, meaning the "cosmological constant" is positive. What if it's negative?

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Progress in the foundations of physics is moving slowly. And yet it moves. Today I look at the five biggest problems in ...

Astronomers have long thought the universe should look generally the same in every direction, but an anomaly in the radiation ...

On what might have been the proudest day of Jack Burns’s long career in astronomy, he was sitting on a beach. Orbital dynamics and launch schedules wait for no one, and Burns couldn’t move his ...

Some things we see in space appear to outpace light. Now we are learning to harness these bizarre optical illusions to ...

Everything we see around us, from the ground beneath our feet to the most remote galaxies, is made of matter. For scientists, that has long posed a problem: According to physicists’ best current ...

Massive stars do not live long. There are several candidates for the biggest star in the universe. One of them, VY Canis Majoris, is over 1,500 times the width of the sun. If it were placed in our ...