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The Universe might not exist forever. New observations by physicists indicate that it will one day reach its maximum size ...

The new data seem to indicate that the cosmological constant is negative, and that the universe will end in a Big Crunch,” ...

On human timescales, the universe may as well be eternal. It’ll be here long after our species and our planet are gone, but ...

An international consortium of scientists studying dark energy said Tuesday their three-dimensional map of the universe over 11 billion years suggested the cosmos wasn't steadily expanding, but acting ...

Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, or Berkeley Lab, researchers mapped nearly six million galaxies throughout the past 11 billion years of cosmic evolution using the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument, ...

(CNN) — New hints from one of the most extensive surveys of the cosmos to date suggest that mysterious dark energy may be evolving in ways that could shift how astronomers understand the universe.

The Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) is studying dark energy and the accelerated expansion of the universe. Dark energy is weakening and the universe could (eventually) collapse, study says ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Distant, ancient galaxies are giving scientists more hints that a mysterious force called dark energy may not be what they thought. Astronomers know that the universe is being pushed ...

Dark energy, a mysterious force that scientists believe is behind the accelerated expansion of the universe, is weakening — which could result in the universe over the course of billions of years ...