the universe

Life

The Universe Might Be Slowing Down. What Does That Mean?

11.12.25

By Luis Prada
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Life

Physicists Just Predicted When the ‘Big Crunch’ Will End the Universe

10.10.25

By Luis Prada
Tech

Astronomers Discover Incredibly Rare ‘Fossil Cloud’ Created Minutes After the Big Bang

01.08.19

By Daniel Oberhaus
Tech

Three Research Teams Account for the Total Sum of Ordinary Matter Particles in the Universe

09.21.18

By Thom Dunn
Tech

How Cosmologists Determined That the Universe Is Expanding Faster Than Anyone Thought

02.27.18

By Daniel Oberhaus
Tech

You Are Part Extragalactic, Study Says

07.30.17

By Becky Ferreira
Sports

Kwintin Williams Is Dunking in Ways No One Even Imagined Before

04.07.17

By David Roth
Tech

The Expansion of the Universe Appears Faster Than We Thought

01.27.17

By Farnia Fekri
Tech

Scientists Think the Speed of Light Has Slowed, and They’re Trying to Prove It

12.06.16

By Daniel Oberhaus
Tech

The Universe Contains Ten Times As Many Galaxies As Previously Estimated

10.13.16

By Becky Ferreira
Music

We Interviewed a Real Life NASA Dude About the New, Juno-Honoring Weezer and Trent Reznor Tracks

07.01.16

By Alex Robert Ross and Nik Kosieradzki
Tech

Gravitational Waves Have Been Detected, a Century After Einstein Predicted Them

02.11.16

By Becky Ferreira

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