Astronomy does not belong off Earth. It belongs wherever the universe can be observed — and that necessarily includes the surface of the planet humans live on. Kelsey Johnson: Past President of the ...

They show up as a mathematical solution in general relativity, basically as a time-reversed version of a black hole. Some ...

"The polarized light of the cosmic microwave background is sensitive to new physics that violates parity symmetry," the team ...

Using the James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers have investigated 70 dusty galaxies at the very edge of the universe that ...

The “horizon” he points to isn’t a doorway to the divine, other scientists say. Yet, modern physics has been trying to answer questions once left to religion.

Physicist Sean Carroll explains how physics, astronomy, philosophy, and classics all help us understand the expanding universe and our place in it ...

Quasicrystals are orderly structures that never repeat. Scientists just showed they can exist in space and time.

Dan Trachtenberg's third Predator movie is the most substantial evolution of the sci-fi franchise to date and boldly embraces ...

An astrophysicist explains what wormholes are and how these theoretical space-time tunnels have popped up in the solutions to a set of decadesold equations.

The shape of the cosmos depends on a balance of two competing forces: the pull of gravity and the expansion driven by dark ...

This enormous chain of hundreds of galaxies—a cosmic filament—is twisting through space 400 million light-years away ...