The Big Bang theory has dominated our understanding of the universe’s origin for almost 100 years. It describes a moment when ...

Physicist Mir Faizal, Adjunct Professor with UBC Okanagan’s Irving K. Barber Faculty of Science, was not out to shatter the ...

It's a plot device beloved by science fiction: our entire universe might be a simulation running on some advanced ...

Evidence of this quantum layer may be coming soon. Here’s what you’ll learn in this story: Physicists are still puzzling over ...

The universe's first galaxies were hot messes, according to a recent study. During their younger days, they were wild, ...

Dark-energy evidence suggests the universe will end in a “big crunch” roughly 20 billion years from now. The universe is nearing the halfway point of what may be a 33-billion-year lifespan, according ...

Five Year of NASA's James Webb Space Telescope NASA's James Webb Space Telescope was launched nearly five years ago, and the ...

A distant chemical signature, captured by the infrared eye of the James Webb Space Telescope, has just opened a new window ...

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) continues to deliver awe-inspiring views of the cosmos and the art world has taken notice. Digital artist Ashley Zelinskie took that inspiration to the next level ...

The 3I/ATLAS comet was first spotted in July near Jupiter after it entered our solar system from another universe. Here’s ...

Two blind spots torture physicists: the birth of the universe and the center of a black hole. The former may feel like a moment in time and the latter a point in space, but in both cases the normally ...

This article was originally published at The Conversation. The publication contributed the article to Space.com's Expert Voices: Op-Ed & Insights. About a century ago, scientists were struggling to ...