Researchers used hundreds of thousands of computer simulations to examine the remnants of these ancient magnetic fields, which still reside within the " cosmic web " billions of years later. Magnetism ...

If recent discoveries that dark energy is evolving hold any water, our Universe will collapse under its own gravity on a finite timeline, new calculations suggest. Based on several recent dark energy ...

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Dark energy is one of the most mysterious concepts in all of the cosmos. We know very little about what it is but it just might play an overwhelming role in the death of the universe. Often referred ...

Everything we see around us, from the ground beneath our feet to the most remote galaxies, is made of matter. For scientists, that has long posed a problem: According to physicists’ best current ...

No one can say with scientific confidence why we exist or what happens when we die. In fact, scientists have a tenuous grasp ...