Astronomers are rethinking one of cosmology’s biggest mysteries: dark energy. New findings show that evolving dark energy models, tied to ultra-light axion particles, may better fit the universe’s ...

On July 4, 2012, researchers at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) in Switzerland announced with great fanfare that they had ...

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

Twin black hole collisions detected in 2024 have provided the sharpest-ever test of Einstein’s theory while revealing new details about how black holes form and spin.

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

The uncertainty inherent to quantum mechanics has long left physicists wondering whether the observations we make on the ...

Ghost particles' can zoom through you without a trace. Scientists are getting to the bottom of this cosmic mystery ...

The ‘inflationary’ model of cosmology explains many large-scale features of the Universe as the result of a primordial period ...

Huge eruptions from the Milky Way’s supermassive black hole in the distant past may have sterilized much of the inner galaxy ...

Astronomers have detected two extraordinary gravitational wave events that may have come from black holes formed in earlier ...

New research reveals how ghost particles may break the universe’s symmetry, offering clues to why matter—and life—exist at all.