Cosmology is already a complicated field of study, so switching up the variables is extra rough.

Dark-energy evidence suggests the universe will end in a “big crunch” roughly 20 billion years from now. The universe is nearing the halfway point of what may be a 33-billion-year lifespan, according ...

Scientists have long held that the universe is expanding at an ever-increasing rate, driven by a mysterious but measurable ...

Unraveling the mysteries of how the world might end is fascinating and terrifying. It's a topic that sparks our imagination, ...

But new studies suggest that one of his most famous ideas, the cosmological constant, may not be fixed after all. If true, it ...

“If confirmed, this would have profound implications for the fate of the universe,” said The Guardian. The study raises the ...

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 ...

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 ...

As if dark energy weren't already mysterious and baffling enough, new research suggests that this unknown force may not be ...

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 ...

For several decades, evidence has suggested that the expansion of the universe is accelerating. Crucial to those estimates ...