By observing the brightness of distant dying stars, astronomers have long come to believe that the expansion of the universe ...

“If confirmed, this would have profound implications for the fate of the universe,” said The Guardian. The study raises the ...

For decades, scientists have believed that the Universe is expanding at an ever-accelerating pace due to a mysterious force ...

The universe's expansion may actually have started to slow rather than accelerating at an ever-increasing rate as previously ...

In a new, detailed breakdown of current theory, a team of physicists led by Mir Faizal of the University of British Columbia ...

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

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

Astronomers have proposed a new theory to suggest why our universe is expanding at an accelerating rate. That our universe is expanding is in wide agreement, though how exactly that process happens is ...

The possibility that our entire universe merely exists inside a computer simulation is more than an idle science fiction ...

Researchers say they've proven that the fundamental nature of reality simply cannot be simulated on any computer.

The Big Bang theory has provided the most widely accepted basis of our understanding of the universe since it was first proposed by Georges Lemaitre in 1927. In short, it posits that all the matter in ...

Physicists who have been roaming the “landscape” of string theory—the space of zillions and zillions of mathematical solutions of the theory, where each solution provides the kinds of equations ...