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The paper argues that the universe will begin to contract after reaching a peak size, before collapsing back to a single ...

According to the new model, the Universe continues expanding but at a gradually slowing rate until reaching maximum size, ...

Physicists from Cornell University, Shanghai Jiao Tong University and other institutions reckon they know when the universe will bow out in a 'big' way.

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Scientists say the Universe has no edge, but that doesn't mean it's infinite. A Manchester astrophysicist explains what we ...

Earth and our entire Milky Way galaxy may sit inside a mysterious giant hole which makes the cosmos expand faster here than in neighboring regions of the universe, astronomers say.

Some physicists think our reality is a kind of cosmic hologram, with space, time, and gravity as manifestations of a ...