The expansion rate of the universe may be slowing down, rather than accelerating at an ever-growing rate, a potentially groundbreaking new study has hinted. The suggestion challenges both the 2011 ...
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The universe’s expansion might not be accelerating but slowing down, a new study suggests. If confirmed, the finding would upend decades of established astronomical assumptions and rewrite our ...
An international group of more than 900 researchers studying the expansion of the universe presented their findings on Wednesday during the American Physical Society’s Global Physics Summit in Anaheim ...
Our universe does host life, but another one might be even better suited for life. Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: Researchers are studying how hospitable our universe is to ...
The six-year Dark Energy Survey has released its full results, showing that two leading models of cosmology are equally valid ...
NSF Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory in the Chilean Andes. Image credit: Reidar Hahn, Fermilab University of Portsmouth is a member of ...
Dark energy, a mysterious force that scientists believe is behind the accelerated expansion of the universe, is weakening — which could result in the universe over the course of billions of years ...