The size of the universe depends on its shape, with possibilities ranging from finite and spherical to flat or even infinite.

The universe may be vast, but researchers have multiple points of evidence that reveal its shape.

What if the universe remembers? A bold new framework proposes that spacetime acts as a quantum memory. For over a hundred ...

To celebrate the 50th anniversary of CBC’s Quirks & Quarks, host Bob McDonald gathered six of Canada’s top scientists to ...

The true “informational age” of the cosmos may be 62 billion years, not just the 13.8 billion years of our current expansion.

While Peacemaker concludes with a major cliffhanger involving Chris Smith’s abduction by Rick Flag Sr., Gunn stated there are ...

Black holes are so strange that physicists have long wondered if they are quite what they seem. Now we are set to find out if ...

For science-fiction enthusiasts, that’s a bit depressing. Space is big, and while the speed of light is incredibly fast to us ...

Astronomy is, in essence, an exercise in inference. We cannot touch the stars, nor scoop up galaxies in a lab. Instead, we ...

A space professor who helped design a groundbreaking satellite has said it will "profoundly change our understanding of the ...

According to a new Physical Review Letters study, black holes could help solve the dark matter mystery. The shadowy regions ...

The first high-energy collisions between light nuclei at the Large Hadron Collider confirm the unusual 'bowling-pin' shape of neon nuclei and offer up a new tool to study the extreme state of matter ...