A new study casts doubt on the universe’s accelerating expansion, suggesting dark energy might be weakening over time.

Encouraged by successes in understanding black holes, theoretical physicists are applying what they’ve learned to whole ...

Where is the center of the universe? Learn why researchers say the rules may not apply to the center of the universe.

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 ...

At the turn of the century, it sounded as if string theory could give us big answers about the universe. Well… has it?

Deep in the heart of the matter, some numbers don't add up. For example, while protons and neutrons are made of quarks, ...

In 1980, Stephen Hawking gave his first lecture as Lucasian Professor at the University of Cambridge. The lecture was called ...

Physicist Mir Faizal, Adjunct Professor with UBC Okanagan’s Irving K. Barber Faculty of Science, was not out to shatter the dreams of science fiction enthusiasts when he began to study the limits of ...

There are gazillions of different possible universes that can be described and understood using the tools provided by string ...