The finest ever map of the cosmic microwave background - the faint evidence of the universe's early form - has yielded ...

The building blocks of life on Earth may have been fueled by tiny sparks hopping between water droplets.

According to the new DESI numbers, dark energy may be changing over time—either causing the universe’s expansion to ...

Black holes have such extreme gravity that not even light can escape. They have been caught shredding entire stars and can ...

New research suggests the violent explosions of dying stars may have caused two of Earth’s biggest mass extinctions millions ...

Brookhaven National Laboratory's Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider kicked off its final year of operations this week, marking a ...

Using explosives to create beauty rather than warfare and violence provides a sliver of hope for our shared human future.” ...

Obliquity refers to Earth's tilt. Imagine drawing a straight line through Earth, along its rotational axis around which the planet spins every 24 hours. The angle this line makes to the ecliptic ...

“Another explanation could be that the distribution of galaxy direction of rotation in the universe is random, but only seems non-random to an Earth-based ... can be found drawing, playing ...

After tearing his way through the Marvel Universe with battles against Hulk, Spider-Man, X-Men and Fantastic Four, Toho’s ...

Swarms of satellites launched by SpaceX and other companies are disrupting astronomical observations. Here's how scientists ...