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A Possible Crisis in the Cosmos Could Lead to a New Understanding of the Universe

Several unexplained measurements are threatening to upend scientists’ understanding of the universe’s origin and fate

Will the Universe Ever Stop Expanding?

Scientists debate what the future of the cosmos looks like and whether space will ever stop getting bigger and bigger

Europe’s Euclid Space Telescope Is Launching a New Era in Studies of the ‘Dark Universe’

The Euclid mission will probe dark energy and dark matter like never before, setting the stage for an international, multiobservatory push to solve some of the universe’s deepest mysteries...

Could Gravity’s Quantum Origins Explain Dark Energy?

A potentially transformative theoretical study links a new model of quantum gravity with the universe’s bizarrely accelerating rate of expansion

This Report Could Make or Break the Next 30 Years of U.S. Astronomy

A battle for the future of American stargazing is about to begin—and the stakes are sky high

The Cosmological Constant Is Physics’ Most Embarrassing Problem

Physicists have new ideas about why the energy of empty space is so much weaker than it is predicted to be

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