Recent surveys hint that the rate of cosmic expansion changes dramatically over time; if that's true, then the universe could ...

Of all the possible ways for the universe to end, the one that is the most concerning is known as False Vacuum Decay. While ...

We could go out with a crunch, and not a bang. Contrary to popular belief, our universe may not be constantly expanding after all. A groundbreaking study by South Korean researchers suggests that dark ...

It’s the end of the world as we know it — a lot sooner than we think. A team of researchers have drastically scaled back the going estimate of how long it will be until the universe ceases to exist.

Physicists have modelled a quantum mechanism that can result in the end of the universe through the mechanism of false vacuum ...

Scientists have calculated our universe may meet a violent end "trillions of years sooner than expected". New studies suggest ...

The universe is dead; long live the universe. Not right at this moment, not yet. But one day everything we know will be gone. The cities we build, the lakes we swim in, the planet we live on, the ...

If you imagine the story of the universe as a film endlessly in post-production, cosmologists would be its obsessive editors, constantly tweaking the narrative. The version they are working with is an ...