Stephen DiKerby receives funding from the National Science Foundation. Whether the universe will “end” at all is not certain, but all evidence suggests it will continue being humanity’s cosmic home ...

The surface of Earth is finite. We can measure it. If it was expanding, then its size would grow with time. And once again, good ol' Earth helps us understand what the universe might be doing beyond ...

An expanding universe complicates this picture just a little bit, because the universe absolutely refuses to be straightforward. Objects are still emitting light, and that light takes time to travel ...

The original production starred Lily Tomlin, Wagner’s long-time life partner and now wife. Tomlin swept the acting awards that season winning her second Tony, the Drama Desk, and Outer Critics Circle ...

Rest assured that as everything seems to be falling apart on Earth, it also appears that the rest of the universe is on a downward trajectory, too. In new research that gauged several vital signs of ...

However, not everybody agrees with this widely accepted scientific consensus. In a controversial new paper, published in the journal Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, a team led by ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: A new paper adjusts an equation that defines our universe in response to recent new data. The cosmological constant, which describes how our universe ...

It is widely thought that our universe is expanding at an ever-accelerating rate. But could we have that wrong? That is what a group of scientists from South Korea claims, but other scientists have ...

Despite the universe containing billions of habitable planets, Earth may be uniquely suited for intelligent life. Unemployment, inflation and GDP growth will be worse this year than projected, budget ...

As the play begins, self-described bag lady Trudy is waiting on the corner of Walk/Don't Walk in New York City for an arranged meeting with the aliens she's befriended. The role made famous by Lily ...

OpenAI has announced that its latest experimental reasoning LLM, referred to internally as the “IMO gold LLM”, has achieved gold‑medal level performance at the 2025 International Mathematical Olympiad ...