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 ...

Astronomers have long thought the universe should look generally the same in every direction, but an anomaly in the radiation ...

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 ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has looked back into deep time to find “rubies” or “little red dots” stretched across the ...

Evidence of this quantum layer may be coming soon. Here’s what you’ll learn in this story: Physicists are still puzzling over ...

According to the model, dark matter may have started as particles that were hot, light, massless, and fast. As the universe ...

So much happened in the earliest moments of the universe. Elementary particles appeared, the first nuclei of hydrogen and ...

UChicago-led study analyzes massive galaxy clusters mapped by the Dark Energy Survey, offers new way to probe cosmic laws ...