A new study suggests that the explosive deaths of the universe's earliest stars created surprising quantities of water that ...

While the Devourer of Worlds may be an all-powerful cosmic god, his strength isn't infallible. Even gods can be brought down, ...

This year's nominees are the optics antidote we didn't know we needed. By Steven Zeitchik Senior Editor, Awards Discussing Oscar voters in the context of the American electorate has always struck ...

A fire broke out at the Maha Kumbh Festival in India. It destroyed at least 18 large tents. No people were injured. Jack Flaherty won’t return to the Dodgers after winning the World Series ...

In the moments before the Big Bang, our universe was a hot, dense, and extremely high-energy place. That all changed when the universe exploded 13.8 billion years ago. Rapid inflation divided a ...

"This may be reshaping how we think about the Universe, and it's exciting! There are still surprises left in cosmology, and who knows what discoveries will come next?" This research was published in ...

New research suggests that dark energy isn't needed to explain the acceleration in the expansion of the universe — instead suggesting giant voids in space are creating an illusion. When you ...

What is the structure of our physical reality? Physicists have long imagined space and time interweaving into “space-time”, the metaphorical fabric that underlies the cosmos. But there may be ...

Hubble’s finding fundamentally altered humanity’s understanding of the cosmos, revealing a universe far larger and more complex than previously imagined. He demonstrated that Andromeda was roughly 20 ...

Dark matter can't be too heavy or it might break our best model of the universe, new research suggests. We have an abundance of evidence that something fishy is happening in the universe.