The theorists predict that the beginning of the end will be in about 10 billion years — less than the present age of the ...

A surprising new paper suggests that the universe's expected lifespan is just 33 billion years, and that the cosmos will ...

It all boils down to a mysterious component of the universe called dark energy. This hypothetical substance is responsible ...

New theory indicates that the universe could stop expanding in 10 billion years and collapse completely in 33 billion years ...

The study, published on the arXiv platform, proposes a computer model in which the Universe has a total lifespan of about 33 ...

The cosmological constant, which explains how and why the universe is expanding, has been previously described by astrophysicists as “the worst prediction in the history of physics” due to its ...

(via PBS Space Time) We know that the universe is getting bigger. And we know that the speed that the universe is getting bigger is also getting bigger. The standard assumption is that the ...

One suggestion is that it might be a kind of energy associated with empty space known as the “ cosmological constant,” an idea first proposed by Albert Einstein in 1917.

All of those measurements have uncertainties, which include the "boring" case of a cosmological constant, but it's intriguing that the data seem to prefer a phantom energy universe.

This cosmological term or universal constant — now referred to as the cosmological constant — did more than just dispense with the need to determine conditions at an infinitely distant boundary.