A question that has vexed physicists for the past century may finally have a solution – but perhaps not the one everyone was ...

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

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

Led by doctoral student Tatsuya Kotani and Professor Tomoharu Oka from Keio University, the research team measured the ...

If it is a galaxy, it would be the oldest known galaxy in the cosmos, but it could also be a brown dwarf or an early black ...

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

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

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

UChicago-led study analyzes massive galaxy clusters mapped by the Dark Energy Survey, offers new way to probe cosmic laws ...

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

The flare came from a supermassive black hole that's 10 billion light years away, making the flash the most distant one ...

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