A new study by physicists predicts that the universe could one day collapse in a reverse Big Bang, offering fresh insight into how it might all end.

Galaxy NGC 6822, neighbouring the Milky Way galaxy, being studied to learn more about stars and dust in the early universe. Credit: NASA/James Webb Space Telescope Galaxy NGC 6822, neighbouring the ...

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If ultimately true, the universe will reach its maximum size around 11 billion years from now. At that point, physics (and ...

What if the universe remembers? A bold new framework proposes that spacetime acts as a quantum memory. For over a hundred ...

In the search to understand how the universe came to be, a new theory is rewriting the script. Instead of one massive, fiery birth like the Big Bang, this idea suggests the cosmos has been growing in ...

Astronomers have detected a mysterious dark object in the distant universe — and its size has them fascinated.

If recent discoveries that dark energy is evolving hold any water, our Universe will collapse under its own gravity on a ...