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The South Pole Telescope has mapped our skies in more detail than ever before, strengthening our understanding of dark energy ...
Take a deep breath: the universe is not just big it’s mind-bogglingly, practically scandalously huge. And it’s growing. A ...
At some point in the very distant future, there will be no stars shining in the universe at all. New observations show that the picture is perhaps even more complex, however.
In a million years, constellations will vanish, stars like Betelgeuse will explode, and humanity may no longer exist. This video unpacks the very far future of the universe, where time stretches ...
How will the universe end? The question just got an unexpected twist. Cosmologist Katie Mack breaks down what the latest findings about dark energy mean for our universe’s future.
Far enough into the future, say, 10 100 years from now, what we call the Universe will consist of an expanding bath of subatomic particles slowly cooling on their way to absolute zero.
Astronomers have found the largest structure in the universe so far, named Quipu after an Incan measuring system. It contains a shocking 200 quadrillion solar masses.