Faced with observations of early black holes and galaxies that weren’t expected to exist, scientists have come up with a ...

New telescopes are challenging the idea that the cosmic web fades into a uniform, directionless distribution. It may be ...

Thanks to the Event Horion Telescope, we now know black holes exist, but a new study published recently in Physical Review D ...

Every time I see the moon in the sky, it makes me happy. Our natural satellite is so familiar it’s easy to take it for ...

What is life then, in the fundamental sense? Is it mere matter interacting with itself? Is it matter that organises and ...

Having the right conditions and raw material for life does not mean that life can originate or arise by chance.

Earth gains thousands of tonnes of space dust every year, yet scientists say it may still be losing weight. So, is our planet ...

From slavery to abortion, conservatives and liberals alike have reached for “natural law” to resolve many of the country’s ...

When Jews living in the Diaspora are discriminated against there is immediate criticism, but when Arabs are discriminated ...

A particle detected at the South Pole was born in a galaxy that churned out stars when the Universe was young.

When Andreas Albrecht was a grad student at the University of Pennsylvania, he was looking for an advisor in particle physics ...

A star called TOI-2155 lies around 1,350 light-years (839 trillion miles) from Earth. It is a little bigger, heavier and ...