The big-idea explorers at Aperture explain entropy and what it tells us about the universe’s ultimate fate.

Dr Peter Verheyen, Sola Society and Academy at Vienna University, discusses intriguing research and discoveries related to ...

Cosmology has a way of turning everyday certainty inside out, and few ideas do it more brutally than the suggestion that your entire life story could be a physical fluke. The Boltzmann brain puzzle ...

The issue stems from a deeper conflict within statistical physics. A key principle used to explain why time appears to move ...

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 ...

The end of the universe has always felt like a distant abstraction. But new calculations suggest that our original timeline might have been wildly optimistic. According to a team of Dutch scientists, ...

Astrophysicists and cosmologists have competing theories about how the universe will end. Some think there is enough dark matter in the universe to generate the gravitational pull necessary to have ...

Cyclic cosmology, or the big bounce, is the idea that the universe will eventually crunch back together and then go through ...