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When will the universe die?

The universe has been expanding for 13.8 billion years, but this may not go on forever. According to some theories, we may be accelerating toward a cataclysmic end.

LiveScience · May 24, 2025

Scientists use the JWST to study an extremely ancient galaxy piercing through the Cosmic Dark Ages

Using the James Webb Space Telescope, scientists have found an extremely ancient galaxy piercing through a thick blanket of cosmic fog in the distant universe.

Space · Apr 28, 2025

Universe grew ‘much faster than expected’ after Big Bang, astronomers say

The recent detection of oxygen in the most distant known galaxy is making astronomers rethink how quickly galaxies formed after the Big Bang.

The Independent UK · Mar 20, 2025

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Dark energy is even stranger than we thought, new 3D map of the universe suggests. 'What a time to be alive!' (video)

The 3D cosmic map building DESI has provided more clues that dark energy is weakening over time, suggesting our best model of cosmic evolution could be wrong.

Space · Mar 20, 2025

NASA's SPHEREx space telescope successfully launches into space (finally) taking 600 photos a day

The telescope will map the sky in 102 infrared colors, and the data it collects will shed light on the origins of the Universe

Digital Camera World · Mar 15, 2025

The universe's water is billions of years older than scientists thought — and may be nearly as old as the Big Bang itself

A new study suggests that water first appeared in the universe just a couple hundred million years after the Big Bang — meaning life could have evolved billions of years earlier than previously thought.

LiveScience · Mar 11, 2025

Quantum effects make distant objects move together: new research finds this may happen with ripples in space

Galaxies, planets, black holes: to most people, everything about our Universe sounds and feels enormous. But while it’s true that much of what happens millions of light years away is large, there are also processes happening at the quantum end of the scale. That’s the branch of science which explains…

The Conversation · Feb 18, 2025

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Monster Radio Jet Twice The Width Of The Milky Way Discovered: 'This Object Is So Extreme'

It spans 200,000 light years and was formed when the universe was only 1.2 billion years old.

International Business Times · Feb 7, 2025

Monster Radio Jet Detected From Early Universe Quasar

Groundbreaking discovery of colossal radio jet from early universe quasar, twice Milky Way's width, observed by global telescopes.

The universe could undergo a 'catastrophic change' that could alter absolutely everything, quantum machine shows

The groundbreaking simulation allowed scientists to better understand a phenomenon that could entirely change the structure of the universe – and about which little is still known

The Independent UK · Feb 4, 2025

Cosmic voids may explain the universe's acceleration without dark energy

New research suggests that dark energy isn't needed to explain the acceleration in the expansion of the universe — instead suggesting giant voids in space are creating an illusion.

LiveScience · Jan 21, 2025

'Our model of cosmology might be broken': New study reveals the universe is expanding too fast for physics to explain

Astronomers have been confounded by recent evidence that the universe expanded at different rates throughout its life. New findings risk turning the tension into a crisis, scientists say.

LiveScience · Jan 20, 2025

5 times the James Webb telescope rewrote physics in 2024

The James Webb space telescope had several stunning findings this year that changed how we understand the universe.

LiveScience · Dec 28, 2024

Dark energy doesn’t exist, scientists say in shock claim that could solve one of universe’s biggest mysteries

Dark energy does not exist, some scientists have claimed – which could help get rid of one of the universe’s biggest mysteries.

The Independent UK · Dec 23, 2024

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Space · Dec 18, 2024

Hubble trouble or Superbubble? Astronomers need to escape the 'supervoid' to solve cosmology crisis

The disagreement in the rate of expansion of the universe, the Hubble tension, could arise from the fact Earth sits in an under-dense supervoid region of space.

The Conversation · Dec 12, 2024

How to catch a supernova explosion before it happens – and what we can learn from it

Stars are born, live and die in spectacular ways, with their deaths marked by one of the biggest known explosions in the Universe. Like a campfire needs wood to keep burning, a star relies on nuclear fusion — primarily using hydrogen as fuel — to generate energy and counteract the…

Space · Nov 21, 2024

James Webb Space Telescope unveils surprising 'Red Monsters' in the early universe

Three ultramassive galaxies found by the James Webb Space Telescope have astronomers reconsidering how galaxies grew so quickly in the first billion years after the Big Bang.

The Conversation · Nov 20, 2024

It’s 100 years since we learned the Milky Way is not the only galaxy

On Sunday November 23 1924, 100 years ago this month, readers perusing page six of the New York Times would have found an intriguing article, amid several large adverts for fur coats. The headline read: Finds Spiral Nebulae are Stellar Systems: “Dr Hubbell Confirms View That They Are ‘Island Universes’;…

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The Independent UK · Nov 14, 2024

NASA telescope discovers creepy ultra-massive ‘Red Monster’ galaxies in the early universe

The discovery challenges current models of galaxy formation, scientists say

The Conversation · Oct 31, 2024

It all started with a Big Bang – the quest to unravel the mystery behind the birth of the universe

How did everything begin? It’s a question that humans have pondered for thousands of years. Over the last century or so, science has homed in on an answer: the Big Bang.

LiveScience · Oct 29, 2024

James Webb telescope finds 1st possible 'failed stars' beyond the Milky Way — and they could reveal new secrets of the early universe

The James Webb Space Telescope may have found dozens of elusive brown dwarfs — strange objects larger than planets but smaller than stars — beyond the Milky Way for the first time ever.

LiveScience · Oct 23, 2024

Euclid telescope reveals 1st section of largest-ever 3D map of the universe — and there's still 99% to go

The first piece of the Euclid space telescope's map of the universe is crammed with 14 million galaxies and 100 million sources of light. The mapping project is now 1% done.

The Independent UK · Oct 1, 2024

Mysteries of universe revealed? Hardly. But CERN still fascinates, discovers on its 70th anniversary

The scientific center that is home to the world’s largest particle accelerator and is billed as the world’s biggest machine is celebrating its 70th anniversary

Space · Sep 23, 2024

Massive radio survey reveals our universe's structure at the largest scales

New observations from the MeerKAT radio survey suggest our estimates of the cosmic dipole effect are actually in line with the large scale structure of the universe.

The Conversation · Sep 6, 2024

Tiny, compact galaxies are masters of disguise in the distant universe − searching for the secrets behind the Little Red Dots

Astronomers exploring the faraway universe with the James Webb Space Telescope, NASA’s most powerful telescope, have found a class of galaxies that challenges even the most skillful creatures in mimicry – like the mimic octopus. This creature can impersonate other marine animals to avoid predators. Need to be a flatfish?…

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