For more than two decades, dark energy has played the role of invisible puppet master, driving the universe to expand faster and faster, seemingly without limit. Now a new set of tantalizing results hints that this mysterious force might not be constant after all – it may actually be weakening over time. If that holds ...
Not so long ago, astronomers expected the universe to behave like a ball thrown into the air: expand rapidly at first, then slow down under the pull of gravity. Instead, in one of the most unsettling discoveries of modern science, they found the opposite. The cosmic expansion is speeding up, as if some invisible ...
You’re standing at a cosmic crossroads right now, whether you realize it or not. The universe as we knew it just a few years ago has been quietly dismantled and rebuilt, discovery by discovery, image by image. The questions we ask aren’t the same anymore. The answers we get are stranger, bolder, and frankly more ...
