"By revealing the evolving textures of the fabric of our universe as never before, DESI and the Mayall telescope are changing our very understanding of the future of our universe and nature itself." ...

the universe will be truly cold, dark and empty. If you feel let down by this gloomy conclusion to all things, take solace in knowing that this outcome is only the future as it might be.

For many years, scientists have tried to work out the density of the Universe. The answer to this would give them an idea of whether the Universe is going to expand forever, or if the ...

then the "vacuum energy" that is emerging in the universe will continue to overtake the pull of gravity from matter. This means that, in the future, gravitationally bound clusters of galaxies will ...

The expansion of the Universe is not constant ... Our Sun is on one of the spiral arms as shown in the diagram: The Sun's orbital speed is determined almost entirely by the gravitational pull ...

Arizona: A team of researchers recently released the most comprehensive "three-dimensional" map of the universe, which they say could reveal some hints about dark energy, the mysterious force that ...

"Whatever the nature of dark energy is, it will shape the future of our universe. It's pretty remarkable that we can look up at the sky with our telescopes and try to answer one of the biggest ...

Our time line stretches from the big bang some 10 to 20 billion years ago to the time 10 100 years in the future when even black holes, the last surviving remnants of the universe as we know it ...

A negative measurement of duration has added a new level of strangeness. In the car analogy, Tony Soprano is spending less than zero amount of time in the tunnel, and it can't be explained by the same ...