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

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

In a controversial new paper, researchers argue that the acceleration of the universe's expansion has slowed down.

Monster black holes entered the cosmic scene soon after the Universe’s birth and grew rapidly, reaching millions or even ...

In the blink of an eye after the Big Bang, the universe could have birthed strange new stars and black holes.

Astronomers using data from ESA's Euclid and Herschel space telescopes have confirmed that star formation has already peaked ...

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

Learn what a black hole is, how it forms, and how astronomers detect it. Understand the science behind black holes and their ...

New research from UBC Okanagan mathematically demonstrates that the universe cannot be simulated. Using Gödel’s ...

A new theory claims dark matter and dark energy don’t exist — they’re just side effects of the universe’s changing forces. By ...

Two blind spots torture physicists: the birth of the universe and the center of a black hole. The former may feel like a moment in time and the latter a point in space, but in both cases the normally ...

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 ...