Until recently, Type Ia supernovae have been treated by cosmologists as the gold standard of cosmic distance determination: quite uniform “standard candles” whose peak brightness was reliable over all ...

“Our latest discovery helps solve a 20-year cosmic mystery,” co-lead author Daniel Whalen from the University of Portsmouth's ...

A groundbreaking study from Radboud University suggests the universe may end in approximately 10^78 years, significantly earlier than the previously assumed 10^1100 years. By revisiting Hawking ...

FROSTI is a new adaptive optics system that precisely corrects distortions in LIGO’s mirrors caused by extreme laser power.

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Will the universe keep existing forever? An astrophysicist explains how scientists aren’t entirely sure, but they can make predictions.

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For decades, astronomers have been trying to nail down the value of the Hubble constant—a measure of how fast the universe is expanding. But some cosmologists say there’s evidence that the universe is ...

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