“We’re not claiming that it’s absolutely going to happen this decade. But there could be a 90% chance that it does." reading time 2 minutes It’s been a fantastic week for Stephen Hawking’s black hole ...

"We've been waiting to reach this point for a long time." Using the largest catalog of exploding white dwarf vampire stars ever gathered has provided further evidence that dark energy, the mysterious ...

Physicists may soon witness a cosmic fireworks show: the explosive death of a primordial black hole. Once thought to be unimaginably rare, new research suggests there’s up to a 90% chance of catching ...

How did we get here? Where are we going? And how long will it take? These questions are as old as humanity itself, and, if they’ve already been asked by other species elsewhere in the Universe, ...

Is the universe exploding—expanding swiftly into the uttermost reaches of space? Scientists have been puzzling over the startling speculation ever since the 1920s, when Mount Wilson Astronomers Edwin ...

“This is the way the world ends,” said T. S. Elliot in his famous poem, “Not with a bang but a whimper.” These days, scientists consider the heat-death of the universe to be the whimper, but a new ...

EVANSTON, Ill. - The famous astronomer Carl Sagan once said that “we are made of star stuff.” A new study suggests that Sagan might have been right. Most of the calcium in the universe likely came ...

In deciphering the cosmic puzzle of what the nature of dark energy is, we're going to better learn the fate of the Universe. Whether dark energy changes in strength or sign is key to knowing whether ...