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The fate of the universe once seemed so clear. For the next few billion years, it would continue expanding as it had since the dawn of time. Then, gravity would wrestle back control, beginning a ...

Space The universe is surprisingly lopsided and we don't know why. Two analyses of a million galaxies show that their distribution may not be symmetrical, which may mean that our understandings of ...

As our grip on Earth grows ever tighter, so does the possibility that we could destroy it. But we may have the power to do something even worse ...

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How the balloon analogy for an expanding universe is almost perfect If space-time is expanding, then why does gravity seem to pull things together? Physics can be weird, says Chanda Prescod-Weinstein ...

Space Super-bright black holes could reveal if the universe is pixelated. Space-time may not be continuous but instead made up of many discrete bits – and we may be able to see their effects ...

Some researchers say this so-called "dark flow" is a sign that other universes nestle next door . Last year, … Galaxies going places SOMETHING big is out there beyond the visible edge of ...

One science magazine extrapolated from this to suggest that storing information about just a few hundred electrons needs a computer memory made up of more atoms than exist in the universe – thus ...

Some 13.8 billion years ago, the universe began in a big bang – or, at least, that is what we think happened. Astrophysicist Jo Dunkley is at the forefront of efforts to work out exactly what ...

Physics The universe could vanish at any moment – why hasn’t it? A cataclysmic quantum fluctuation could wipe out everything at any moment. The fact that we’re still here is revealing hidden ...

It’s a discovery for the history books. With its location in our nearest star system and its potential to host life, Proxima b is the most exciting exoplanet found so far.You probably have ...