Spacelines From The Far Out is a new video game that simulates commercial space travel, but how realistic is its portrayal? We spoke to space historian and author Rod Pyle to find out.

Caplan calculates that the most massive black dwarfs will explode first, followed by progressively less massive stars, until there are no more left to go off after about 10 32000 years.

Most of the stars of the far future will be much less massive and less luminous than the sun. Fortunately, even a low-mass, dim star can allow life to flourish.

[+] black dwarf in the far future, a Type Ia supernova will be our fate after all. Image credit: NASA, ESA, Zolt Levay (STScI). That will be the eventual fate of many stars in our local group, but ...

The universe is brimming with galaxies packed with stars – but one day, they'll all go out Credit: NASA Thankfully this terrifying dead universe is so far in the future that you won't have to ...

Those far-flung positions are very unlikely to be where these putative worlds started out, however; as stars die and lose mass, their gravitational grip on their planets weakens, and the planets ...

And while they don’t play a large role now, in the far distant future when these heavier elements become more commonplace inside of stars, they can mess with their fusion reactions.

Future astronomers won't have this evidence, and will have to study hypervelocity stars to deduce the history of the universe and the Big Bang. Skip to main content Open menu Close menu ...

Listen to more stories on the Noa app. Wikipedia’s “Timeline of the Far Future” is one of my favorite webpages from the internet’s pre-slop era. A Londoner named Nick Webb created it on ...