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

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

For decades, scientists have believed that the Universe is expanding at an ever-accelerating pace due to a mysterious force ...

Evidence now suggests the universe’s expansion has started to slow, not speed up. The findings imply dark energy is weakening ...

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

Astronomers are rethinking one of cosmology’s biggest mysteries: dark energy. New findings show that evolving dark energy models, tied to ultra-light axion particles, may better fit the universe’s ...

The popular consensus among scientists is that the universe will continue expanding until the bitter end. A team of ...

Astronomers may have misread cosmic acceleration for 27 years. The universe may be slowing down, not speeding up.

Most people rarely experience the effects of dark matter in ordinary life. However, we live in an environment affected by ...

Astrophysicists at the University of Chicago have developed physics-based models suggesting that dark energy could be changing over time. Dark energy, the mysterious force causing the universe to ...

Dark energy—the term used to describe whatever is causing the universe to expand at an increasing rate—is one of the universe’s greatest mysteries. The most widely accepted theory currently suggests ...

Black holes are eaters of all things, even radiation. But what if their rapacious appetites had an unexpected side effect? A new study published in Physical Review Letters suggests that black holes ...