A new study by physicists predicts that the universe could one day collapse in a reverse Big Bang, offering fresh insight into how it might all end.

Astronomers have traced the hidden fingerprints of dark matter by observing rare, glowing galaxies that lived in the early ...

For centuries, humanity has pondered the ultimate fate of the universe. From theories of infinite expansion to the concept of ...

How exactly did the universe start and how did these processes determine its formation and evolution? This is what a study published in Physical Review Research hopes to address as a team of ...

How old are the stars? Even with the most accurate tools currently available for modeling stellar evolution, the answer ...

The plot represents the new model with the x-axis and the y-axis showing the minimum sizes of collapsing and expanding regions that can impact cosmological measurements. The contours are independent ...

Since the early 20th century, scientists have gathered compelling evidence that the universe is expanding at an accelerating ...

Just 500 million years after the Big Bang, a colossal black hole, 300 million times the mass of the Sun, was already blazing at the heart of a tiny, brilliant galaxy. Found with JWST, this discovery ...

One of the first chemical reactions thought to have occurred in the universe has long posed a conundrum, as it seemed the ...

The universe may have been born out of nothing, with an "anti-universe" twin where time runs in the opposite direction—rather than exploding from an infinitely small and dense point, or "singularity." ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. In 1950 the Italian physicist Enrico Fermi was discussing the possibility of intelligent alien life with his colleagues. If alien ...

On transmuting Boyle's law to Darwin's revolution / Stephen Jay Gould -- The evolution of cellular development / Lewis Wolpert -- The evolution of guns and germs / Jared Diamond -- The evolution of ...