We could go out with a crunch, and not a bang. Contrary to popular belief, our universe may not be constantly expanding after ...

They believed that the indefinite expansion would spread the stars so far apart that the sky would appear dark throughout and ...

A team of South Korean researchers have found that a mysterious force known as dark energy is changing our Universe in a way ...

Scientists analysing dark energy say the universe’s expansion may be slowing, raising the possibility gravity could ...

Studies suggest that the universe's expansion is decelerating — but what could that mean for the future of the cosmos?

Animation of the findings by researchers who used time-delay cosmography to independently confirm that the universe’s current ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Fresh corroboration of the perplexing observation that the universe is expanding more rapidly than expected has scientists pondering the cause - perhaps some unknown factor ...

The universe has likely shifted from a period of acceleration to a phase of deceleration, new study by Korean researchers ...

When you bake a loaf of bread or a batch of muffins, you put the dough into a pan. As the dough bakes in the oven, it expands into the baking pan. Any chocolate chips or blueberries in the muffin ...

The idea that the universe is expanding dates from almost a century ago. It was first put forward by Belgian cosmologist Georges Lemaître (1894–1966) in 1927 and confirmed observationally by American ...