Two clashing ideas about disorder inside black holes now point to the same strange conclusions, and it could reshape the ...

A radical new theory begins with a central claim: consciousness is the fundamental field of reality; time, space, and matter ...

The search for the universe’s center starts with a simple intuition: if everything exploded outward in the Big Bang, there must be a point it all came from. Modern cosmology turns that intuition ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: A new paper adjusts an equation that defines our universe in response to recent new data. The cosmological constant, which describes how our universe ...

Evidence now suggests the universe’s expansion has started to slow, not speed up. The findings imply dark energy is weakening, marking a possible revolution in cosmology. A groundbreaking new study ...

The universe's expansion may actually have started to slow rather than accelerating at an ever-increasing rate as previously thought, a new study suggests. "Remarkable" findings published today in ...

For at least two decades, astronomers have mostly agreed that the universe is around 13.7 billion years old. But the ages of super-old stars and the masses of early galaxies provide compelling ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. The universe started with a bang, but how will it end? Scientists have a few theories. | Credit: ...

This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features the spiral galaxy Messier 77, also known as the Squid Galaxy. CREDIT: ESA/Hubble & NASA, L. C. Ho, D. Thilker. Get the Popular Science daily ...

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." ...