Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I cover aerospace, astronomy & hosted The Cosmic Controversy Podcast. In our never-ending quest for meaning, efforts to understand ...

As theoretical physics delves deeper into the fundamental nature of reality, we’re left to grapple with the questions it leaves us. For example, some physicists claim that our universe is merely an ...

There was no meaning to it. Yet, now there is plenty of meaning–at least to us, in the sense that we use the term: significance. So, where did all this meaning come from? How did meaning enter a ...

What is dark energy? Why does dark energy seem to be weakening? Is our universe part of a larger multiverse? What lies beyond the boundary of a black hole? The universe seems to be rotating, and if ...

The theorists predict that the beginning of the end will be in about 10 billion years — less than the present age of the universe. Tantalizing evidence hints that dark energy might be evolving, ...

An analysis has produced the most precise summation to date of the universe’s dark energy and dark matter contents. Reading time 3 minutes A new analysis of more than 1,500 supernovae has put fresh ...

"It would be amazing if a simple rotation of the universe was the origin of dark energy." What is dark energy? Why does dark energy seem to be weakening? Is our universe part of a larger multiverse?