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 ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: Mathematical evidence indicates that our universe is flat, but it could be infinitely big, as well. You can figure out if an object is flat with a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A new study challenges the idea of an ever-expanding universe. (CREDIT: CC BY-SA 4.0) Astrophysicists have presumed for nearly a ...

A revolutionary new model, gaining traction among physicists, suggests our entire universe might be a vast, expanding black hole that emerged from the collapse of a larger, older "parent" universe.

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 ...