The long-debated idea that we might all be living in a computer simulation—popularized by science fiction films like The Matrix—has taken a major hit.

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

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

Daniel Whiteson and Andy Warner’s upcoming book is a philosophical exploration of the humanity behind our desire to find ...

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

Researchers propose that hydrogen gas from the early Universe emitted detectable radio waves influenced by dark matter.

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

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

Using the James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers have captured the clearest picture yet of how galaxies formed in the early universe.

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 hole.

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

Researchers have moved one step closer to solving one of science’s greatest mysteries—why the universe is filled with matter instead of nothing. Scientists at Indiana University have made a major ...