Then, in their 1999 book The Five Ages of the Universe, the astrophysicists Fred Adams and Gregory Laughlin divided the past and future history of an expanding universe into five eras.

Nov 30, 2025 · Even if what exists is very different from how the universe is now, it’s hard to envision a distant future where the universe is entirely gone. How does this scenario make you feel?

Will the universe drift forever into cold darkness, its galaxies receding until they vanish from sight? Or will everything come crashing back together in a spectacular finale?

Mar 26, 2025 · The new analysis, using the largest 3D map of our universe ever made, looked at dark energy’s influence over the past 11 billion years. The results, using the first three years of collected …

Nov 23, 2025 · Future Observable Universe Evolution Accelerating cosmic expansion driven by dark energy ensures universe can expand faster than light increasingly dominates large-scale dynamics.

Dec 5, 2025 · Researchers using time-delay cosmography independently confirmed that the universe’s current rate of expansion, known as the Hubble constant (H₀), does not match values predicted from …

Jul 7, 2025 · For generations, humans have gazed at the stars and wondered about the ultimate fate of the Universe. Will it expand forever into the cold emptiness, or meet a more dramatic end?

1 day ago · The universe is getting bigger, and there's a problem. Two different ways of measuring its expansion rate give two different answers, and nobody knows why.

Jun 17, 2025 · For decades, scientists have speculated about the ultimate fate of the universe, from cosmic heat death to the eventual demise of celestial bodies. But a recent study from Radboud …

The ultimate fate of the universe is a topic in physical cosmology, whose theoretical restrictions allow possible scenarios for the evolution and ultimate fate of the universe to be described and evaluated.