Then, after another 100,000 years or so, the new field simply winked off, leaving no trace other than a speeded-up universe. Long, long ago, when the universe was only about 100,000 years old — a ...

The universe's expansion may actually have started to slow rather than accelerating at an ever-increasing rate as previously thought, a new study suggests. "Remarkable" findings published today in ...

For a generation, cosmologists have worked with a simple story: the universe is not only expanding, it is expanding faster and faster under the steady push of dark energy. A growing body of fresh data ...

The expansion rate of the universe may be slowing down, rather than accelerating at an ever-growing rate, a potentially groundbreaking new study has hinted. The suggestion challenges both the 2011 ...

It is widely thought that our universe is expanding at an ever-accelerating rate. But could we have that wrong? That is what a group of scientists from South Korea claims, but other scientists have ...

Most messages are press releases about astronomical discoveries—okay, scratch that; most of them are spam, but science announcements are an easy second place. But I also get questions from readers ...

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