Roughly 14 billion years ago, a tiny pinpoint of extreme heat and density erupted in a grand explosion, leading to the creation of between 100 billion and 2 trillion galaxies, one of them being our ...

The shape of the cosmos depends on a balance of two competing forces: the pull of gravity and the expansion driven by dark ...

Neutrino particles have extremely small masses, yet there are so many of them that they carve out the large-scale structure ...

New data from major dark-energy observatories suggest the universe may not expand forever after all. A Cornell physicist calculates that the cosmos is heading toward a dramatic reversal: after ...

He led a team of scientists who helped confirm that a Big Bang was the source of the universe. The discovery earned him a Nobel Prize. By Katrina Miller George F. Smoot, an American physicist and ...

Astronomers have produced the most detailed map yet of dark matter, revealing the invisible framework that shaped the Universe long before stars and galaxies formed. Using powerful new observations ...

Emma Chapman reviews Battle of the Big Bang: The New Tales of Our Cosmic Origins by Niayesh Afshordi and Phil Halper Before the bang That the universe evolved from a "hot Big Bang" is not in question, ...

Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum Fields and Fundamental Forces from Imperial College London. Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum Fields and ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. The universe started with a bang, but how will it end? Scientists have a few theories. | Credit: ...

Depending on how you look at it, the universe might not have an "end," after all. This article was originally published at The Conversation. The publication contributed the article to Space.com's ...