For two decades, scientists believed the cosmological constant, known as λ (lambda), was positive. That meant the Universe ...
Identifying the gravitational waves from black holes binaries could also make it clearer to detect primordial gravitational ...
A research team led by Rice University physicist Frank Geurts has successfully measured the temperature of quark-gluon plasma ...
Scientists have been using complicated, hypothetical particles to explain the Big Bang, but this theory posits that a simpler ...
New observations from the James Webb Space Telescope hint that the universe’s first stars might not have been ordinary fusion ...
A new model suggests the universe may stop expanding and collapse in a reverse Big Bang, ending in a Big Crunch about 20 ...
A new study predicts the Universe will stop expanding in 11 billion years and collapse in a "Big Crunch" around 20 billion ...
If recent discoveries that dark energy is evolving hold any water, our Universe will collapse under its own gravity on a ...
He was a co-winner of the 2006 Nobel Prize for physics for finding the background radiation that finally pinned down the Big ...
Astrophysicists have presumed for nearly a century that the universe will just keep expanding for all eternity, driven by an ...
While working at Berkeley, he collaborated with John Mather on a NASA research study probing the origins of the universe. The two physicists won a Nobel Prize.