Scientist Says Universe Is Actually Exploding

A version of this article appears in the October 10, 1931 issue of Science News. Love our Health & Medicine stories? Our coverage would not be possible without the generous support of subscribers ... Read More

‘Dark Matter’ Uses Science to Explore Regret and Desire

In this new Apple TV+ techno-thriller, a portal to parallel realities allows people to visit new worlds and revisit their own past decisions. Read More

Is the universe really a 'dark forest' full of hostile aliens in hiding?

Liu has depicted what he calls "the worst of all possible universes", continuing a trend within Chinese science fiction. He is not saying that our universe is an actual dark forest, with one ... Read More

Dark energy is tearing the Universe apart. What if the force is weakening?

The first set of results from a pioneering cosmic-mapping project hints that the repulsive force known as dark energy has changed over 11 billion years, which would alter ideas about how the Universe ... Read More

The Mysterious ‘Dark’ Energy That Permeates the Universe Is Slowly Eroding

Physicists call the dark energy that drives the universe “the cosmological constant.” Now the largest map of the cosmos to date hints that this mysterious energy has been changing over billions of ... Read More

Scientists Say There Could Be a ‘Mirror Universe’ Reflecting a Parallel Realm

As described by astrophysicist Paul Sutter for Live Science, the idea posits that for every interaction of normal matter in our universe, a mirror interaction occurs in the universe of dark matter. Read More

Where Is Everybody in Our Universe?

In Exoplanets, astronomer Michael Summers and physicist James Trefil explore remarkable recent discoveries: planets revolving around pulsars, planets made of diamond, planets that are mostly water, ... Read More

Chemist explores the real-world science of Star Wars

Science fiction is meeting science fact ... caused by the burning of just a small amount of oxygen gas and fuel.” A common element found in our own universe, sodium, is used as a fuel in the Star Wars ... Read More

Dark Matter News

Called quasars, the gas-gobbling black holes are, ... New Research Suggests That Our Universe Has No Dark Matter Mar. 15, 2024 — A new study challenges the current model of the universe by ... Read More

Galaxies News

which existed when our 13.8 billion-year-old universe was only about 430 million years ... New Insights on How Galaxies Are Formed Mar. 1, 2024 — Astronomers can use supercomputers to simulate ... Read More

A Scientist Says He Has the Evidence That We Live in a Simulation

Many philosophers and scientists have pondered if we live in a simulated universe, and University of Portsmouth scientist Melvin Vopson believes he has evidence. Read More

The universe's accelerated expansion might be slowing down

These signals of our universe's changing speeds were spotted ... But we are not there yet. The history of science is full of examples in which "deviations of this type have been observed then ... Read More