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 ...

Led by doctoral student Tatsuya Kotani and Professor Tomoharu Oka from Keio University, the research team measured the temperature of the cosmic microwave background radiation, which is the faint ...

According to Dr. Mir Faizal, Adjunct Professor at UBC Okanagan’s Irving K. Barber Faculty of Science, and his international ...

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 ...

In 1867, Lord Kelvin imagined atoms as knots in the aether. The idea was soon disproven. Atoms turned out to be something ...

Ghost particles' can zoom through you without a trace. Scientists are getting to the bottom of this cosmic mystery ...

JWST observations show that early galaxies were chaotic, gas-filled systems rather than stable disks. Researchers from ...

If recent discoveries that dark energy is evolving hold any water, our Universe will collapse under its own gravity on a ...

According to the equations that govern black holes, the larger one of these cosmic behemoths is the lower its average density – given that the universe contains a lot of relatively empty space, could ...

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