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Dark energy could be the key to understanding a cyclical universe that contracts and expands over and over again.
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The Big Bang may have brought the universe into existence, but will a similar event bring about its demise?
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Scientists have spotted an explosion five times greater than anything seen since the birth of the universe.
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Known as the 'Methuselah star' due to its extreme age, this nearby stellar body may predate the Big Bang.
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Physicists at Harvard University have suggested that the universe could end almost as abruptly as it began.
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A table-sized antenna has picked up the fingerprints of the first ever stars to emerge after the Big Bang.
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Some of the world's most respected scientists have penned an open later in response to a recent article.
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A new study has added weight to the idea that the universe may cycle between expansion and contraction.
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New details have emerged about the mysterious crater which opened up in a remote part of Siberia in 2013.
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A distant galaxy cluster is home to the most powerful explosion to have occurred since the Big Bang.
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Scientists have put forward a new theory suggesting that the universe may have never had a beginning.
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Scientists have proposed that there is a universe parallel to our own in which time runs in reverse.
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One physicist has determined that what we know about black holes and the Big Bang could be wrong.
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The extraordinary find is being hailed as one of the most groundbreaking discoveries in cosmology.
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Scientists have promised a groundbreaking announcement pertaining to the birth of the universe.
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An international team of astronomers has detected a galaxy that is 30 billion light years away.