This is called the “heat death” of the Universe, but you can think of it instead as the death of heat. There will be no more ...

Researchers believe that a supernova in our galaxy could reveal the secrets of dark matter by emitting detectable gamma rays from axions. This discovery would provide key insights into the elusive ...

According to a tenet scientists call the cosmological principle, our place in space is in no way exceptional. But recent ...

Recent research has unveiled a troubling and persistent mystery at the heart of modern cosmology: the universe is expanding ...

The atmosphere, a thin veil of molecules enveloping Earth, reaches about 20 miles (32 kilometers) above the planet's surface.

“He was very taken with the thought that no phenomenon becomes a true phenomena until it has been observed,” Wald told Salon ...

But from where Earth sits in the observable universe, our view extends more than 13 billion years into the past. Far outside our Local Group, astronomers have found galaxies so metal-poor and so ...

NASA's Chandra and NuSTAR telescopes have teamed up to study a supermassive black hole-powered quasar that could have played ...

It is 2004 and I am traversing South Africa to write a major national newspaper report on the country celebrating 10 years of ...

Two Indian physicists have theoretically proposed a path-breaking idea which could fundamentally change the current view ...