Medney (" Beyond Kuiper ") and co-author Don Macnab-Stark have crafted an intelligent examination of the human condition in the 23rd century as it surges into an existential era of decision, and we’ve ...

Researchers have found a razor-thin, rotating string of galaxies inside a massive cosmic filament, revealing unexpected ...

Clues about how galaxies like our Milky Way form and evolve and why their stars show surprising chemical patterns have been ...

It’s always amazing, and more than a little humbling, when the universe reminds us that our “common sense” is provincial, ...

Surprisingly, some of the universe's brightest objects are black holes. As scorching gas and dust flow around and into a ...

Researchers at Perimeter Institute are now delving deeper into how a specific dark matter candidate, known as ...

For years, the idea that reality might be a sophisticated computer program has drifted from late-night dorm debates into ...

The universe’s expansion might not be accelerating but slowing down, a new study suggests. If confirmed, the finding would upend decades of established astronomical assumptions and rewrite our ...

Scientists from Japan's RIKEN research centre have created the most detailed simulation of the Milky Way ever made.

Scientists have long held that the universe is expanding at an ever-increasing rate, driven by a mysterious but measurable force known as dark energy. Now, a new study might upend that idea, ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: A new paper adjusts an equation that defines our universe in response to recent new data. The cosmological constant, which describes how our universe ...