Astronomers are closing in on a result so statistically secure that, in their language, it borders on certainty: a 99.9999999 ...

James is a published author with multiple pop-history and science books to his name. He specializes in history, space, strange science, and anything out of the ordinary.View full profile James is a ...

I've long been fascinated by the fundamental mystery of our universe's origin. In my work, I explore an alternative to the traditional singularity-based models of cosmology. Instead of a universe ...

Scientists have many big questions to tackle about the universe, including how big it actually is. But even the proposed answers aren't straightforward.

The Big Bang theory has dominated our understanding of the universe’s origin for almost 100 years. It describes a moment when all of space, time, and energy were born from a single infinitely dense ...

TORONTO, ON – NASA’s Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP) has transformed the science of cosmology by establishing the age, geometry and contents of the universe with astonishing precision – an ...

Mathematics and physics share a close, reciprocal relationship. Mathematics offers the language and tools to describe physical phenomena, while physics drives the development of new mathematical ideas ...

I don’t think the universe is infinite, but instead is in the form of the “surface” of a four-dimensional Euclidean hypersphere, so is finite. Nor do I think our universe is the only one: there may be ...