A unique dataset of Type Ia Supernovae being released today could change how cosmologists measure the expansion history of the Universe.

“Our existence is probably not an evolutionary fluke,” says Jennifer Macalady, a study co-author and microbiology professor ...

Humanity may not be extraordinary but rather the natural evolutionary outcome for our planet and likely others, according to ...

For decades, scientists believed that intelligent life was a rare cosmic accident. A new study challenges that idea, arguing ...

A unique dataset of Type Ia supernovae being released today could change how cosmologists measure the expansion history of ...

In 1920, astronomers Harlow Shapley and Heber Curtis held a Great Debate. Shapley argued that the spiral nebulae were small and in the Milky Way, while Curtis took a more radical position that they ...

Our entire reality could – in theory – be built on a bed of sand, teetering on the brink of collapse. If so, a new device ...

In the quantum realm, the past, present, and future blur into a boundless structure. But consciousness may operate on a plane ...

Astronomers used an array of telescopes to find the most massive radio jet in the early universe. The celestial object is ...

The Einstein ring, formed as light from a distant galaxy bends to glow around another object in the foreground, could help ...

The "dark universe detective" space telescope Euclid has discovered its first Einstein ring in the process, learning about ...