The Universe may not have begun with a Big Bang, but instead with a Big Bounce, according to a new theory about how the ...

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

How did the universe come into being? There are a multitude of theories on this subject. In a Physical Review Letters paper, three scientists formulate a new model: according to this, inflation, the ...

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

"It’s very provocative." The post New Paper Claims Everyone Is Wrong, Universe’s Expansion Is Slowing Down appeared first on ...

A remarkable new study challenges the findings of Nobel Prize winning research into how our universe has changed over time.

The Big Bang theory has dominated our understanding of the universe’s origin for almost 100 years. It describes a moment when ...

If recent discoveries that dark energy is evolving hold any water, our Universe will collapse under its own gravity on a ...

For nearly three decades, astronomers have interpreted the faint luminosity of certain distant explosive stars as a sign of ...

The universe's expansion may actually have started to slow rather than accelerating at an ever-increasing rate as previously ...

Our universe may have been born in a gravitational crunch that formed a very massive black hole—followed by a bounce inside it. The Big Bang is often described as the explosive birth of the universe—a ...