A new model suggests that the universe did not ... If the density is greater than the critical density the universe is closed ...

In the closed universe case, since expansion was faster ... they are so far away that even that model doesn't allow the supernovae to travel as far away as astronomers observe.

The second law of thermodynamics demands that the entropy of any closed macroscopic system should ... Yet these basic precepts, when applied to the Universe as a whole, meet with an apparent ...

We experience the flow of time because it’s a natural outcome of the basic laws of physics. But we may need to build a whole ...

A simulation created by researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology is the most detailed model of the early universe to date. Thesan, named after the Etruscan goddess of the dawn ...

The complete Standard Model took a long time to build. Physicist J.J. Thomson discovered the electron in 1897, and scientists at the Large Hadron Collider found the final piece of the puzzle, the ...

(ESO) This has led to a new and different theory, dubbed the "timescape model," that recent research suggests may more accurately describe our universe. So here we are 25 years after the ...

Before it shut down, a telescope in Chile captured the universe's baby photos, just 380,000 years after the Big Bang. These ...