It’s 9 a.m. on Monday morning, and I’m on the sixth floor of Sterling Hall at UW–Madison. Here, in the newly formed Wisconsin ...

Do you know that in the Holy City of Mecca only Muslims are allowed NonMuslims may not enter or travel through Mecca and attempting to enter Mecca as a nonMuslim can result in penalties such as a fine ...

The "afterglow" of the universe is an important piece of evidence for the Big Bang. This background radiation also provides ...

Rare moon dust samples have been bought to the UK to allow an academic based at the Open University in Milton Keynes to ...

Sub-Neptunes, planets with diameters bigger than Earth's but smaller than Neptune's, are the most prevalent form of exoplanet ...

The word itself comes from galaktikós kyklos, or “milky circle,” the ancient Greek term for the Milky Way, our home galaxy.

On March 27 — 15 days after its launch — SPHEREx saw its first light, proving its instruments performed as designed. This ...

Physicist Melvin Vopson proposes gravity might emerge from cosmic information processing, hinting the universe runs on a ...

There are thousands of galaxies contained in this image, including a cluster that looks to us as it was when the universe was ...

Recent papers published in Nature and Nature Astronomy found life’s building blocks on a near-Earth asteroid named Bennu.

Researchers suggest powerful bursts from magnetars—collapsed stars with strong magnetic fields—may have contributed up to 10 ...

Astronomers have spotted something that appears to stretch around ten billion light years across. This so-called ...