On January 22, 2025, physicists unveiled a groundbreaking discovery that could revolutionize our understanding of the ...

The universe is expanding. That much is clearer. But it’s less clear whether this expansion is accelerating or slowing down. At the heart of this upheaval lies the cosmic yardstick astronomers have ...

Scientists have long held that the universe is expanding at an ever-increasing rate, driven by a mysterious but measurable ...

The Euclid telescope launched in 2023, hitching a ride on SpaceX's Falcon 9 to study the cosmos from the Sun-Earth Lagrange point 2, 1.5 million kilometers (932,000 miles) from Earth. Its job is a big ...

A new study published in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society suggests that the universe’s expansion may be ...

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 ...

Cosmology is already a complicated field of study, so switching up the variables is extra rough.

A new model based on the famous alien-hunting Drake equation suggests that some parallel universes within the hypothetical "multiverse" could have higher chances of containing extraterrestrial life ...

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 ...

One of the most awkward parts of writing a book is that, eventually, authors have to ask people for “blurbs” – the endorsements that you see on the cover of a book, encouraging you to buy it. I am now ...