“Our existence is probably not an evolutionary fluke,” says Jennifer Macalady, a study co-author and microbiology professor ...

Some theories, like the cyclic universe model, propose that the universe undergoes endless cycles of expansion and contraction, meaning there is no ultimate end. Heat Death: If the universe ...

The theory of eternal inflation ... This idea posits a universe where every end is simply another beginning, reshaping how we perceive cosmic time and space. When Google's quantum computer ...

When physicists find this theory, he and others have suggested, then physics will have effectively achieved its end. Now the entire physical universe would be encompassed by a set of equations ...

This theory is tied to the properties of the ... ultimately, what the end of the Universe will look like. While the chance of a catastrophic vacuum decay happening anytime soon remains remote ...

According to this theory, the universe began as an infinitely small ... When cosmic inflation came to a sudden and still mysterious end, the more classic descriptions of the Big Bang took hold.

New research suggests that dark energy isn't needed to explain the acceleration in the expansion of the universe — instead ...

Red shift data provides evidence that the Universe, including space itself, is expanding. The discovery of the CMBR, after it had been predicted by the theory, provided very strong support for the ...

Another theory about the Universe, called the Steady State theory, says that the Universe has always existed, and that the Universe is expanding and constantly creating matter as it expands.

He deduced that if Einstein's theory were true (and there had been good evidence for it since 1919), it meant the universe must be expanding. In 1927, the year he got his PhD from MIT, LeMaitre ...