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The astrophysicist and social media phenom Katie Mack is ready to tell you about the fate of the universe.
Physicists have proposed extra cosmic ingredients that could explain the faster-than-expected expansion of space.
A photograph of the infant cosmos reveals the precise amounts of dark matter and dark energy in the universe, leaving precious little room for argument.
A study challenged the evidence for the mysterious antigravitational force known as dark energy. Then cosmologists shot back.
Most every cosmologist believes the universe is flat. A new analysis argues that it’s closed.
The astronomers Michel Mayor and Didier Queloz won half of the prize for their 1995 discovery of a Jupiter-like planet orbiting a nearby star. The cosmologist James Peebles won the other half for work exploring the structure of the universe.
New measurements could upend the standard theory of the cosmos that has reigned since the discovery of dark energy 21 years ago.
A scientist and programmer with a literary bent, Valeria Pettorino thinks multiple angles and diverse points of view are needed to unriddle the nature of dark matter and dark energy.
A controversial new paper argues that universes with dark energy profiles like ours do not exist in the “landscape” of universes allowed by string theory.