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 ...
How did the universe come into being? There are a multitude of theories on this subject. In a Physical Review Letters paper, ...
String theory suggests that the BIG BANG was not the origin of the universe but simply the outcome of a preexisting state Was the big bang really the beginning of time? Or did the universe exist ...
JWST observations show that early galaxies were chaotic, gas-filled systems rather than stable disks. Researchers from ...
Evidence of this quantum layer may be coming soon. Here’s what you’ll learn in this story: Physicists are still puzzling over ...
The Nasadiya Sukta, from the 10th mandala of the Rigveda, is often called the "Hymn of creation". Instead of giving us a ...
So much happened in the earliest moments of the universe. Elementary particles appeared, the first nuclei of hydrogen and ...
The universe’s first molecule just surprised us again. In a discovery that could rewrite our understanding of how the first stars formed, researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics ...