The South Pole Telescope has released its most precise image yet of the universe’s first light—the cosmic microwave background. This new ground-based data confirms cosmic expansion anomalies and ...

The slower growth of gravitational wells and the accelerating expansion might share the same underlying cause.” In so many ...

"This work is a step toward understanding how quantum mechanics and gravity work together, a major unsolved problem in ...

From Vedic hymns to stone observatories, how ancient India mapped the cosmos, decoded time, and laid the foundations of modern astronomical thought ...

The birth of a new star seen in 1054, bright enough to dazzle humanity and visible for 20 days. An incredible cosmic event ...

They were also not the first missions to carry a message intended for extraterrestrial beings should they reach interstellar ...

Vera Cooper grew up gazing at the night sky from the window of a D.C. townhouse in the 1930s, when her teachers told the ...

However, although photons of light existed since the first second after the Big Bang, they could not yet shine across the ...

In a quiet part of Northern California, where pine trees brush the sky and the hum of giant satellite dishes fills the air, something big is happening in science education. A new wave of college ...

On May 20, the SETI Institute held its annual Drake Awards event in Mountain View, CA, honoring contributions to SETI or ...

The universe may not have begun with the Big Bang as is generally thought but from the collapse of a massive black hole, a new theory suggests. At such a critical moment in US history, we need ...

The curious minds at Aperture analyze the Drake Equation to assess the statistical likelihood that we’re not alone in the universe. Newsom floats withholding federal taxes as Trump threatens ...