This hypothesis is not new. It was given the affectionate nickname of Big Crunch, and says that the accelerated expansion of ...

Current science and cosmology tell us the Universe will slowly die and ebb away countless trillions of trillions of years from now, but another model - the Big Rip - says that end may come far sooner, ...

"For the last 20 years, people believed that the cosmological constant is positive, and the universe will expand forever," Tye says. "The new data seem to indicate that the cosmological constant is ...

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From Roman ruins to rising barbarian kingdoms, the world at the end of antiquity was a strange mix of the old and the new. Explore what an ordinary man might have seen in those uncertain, chaotic ...

We’ve grown up with the idea that the universe will expand forever, meaning the "cosmological constant" is positive. What if ...