That the universe is expanding has been known for almost a hundred years now, but how fast? The exact rate of that expansion ...

Human intelligence wasn’t a cosmic evolutionary fluke, some scientists say. The case against cosmic loneliness is growing.

This enormous chain of hundreds of galaxies—a cosmic filament—is twisting through space 400 million light-years away ...

A team of physicists has proposed that the Big Bang did not mark the absolute beginning of everything but instead occurred ...

An international collaboration using the Low Frequency Array (LOFAR) has published an exceptionally detailed radio sky map, revealing 13.7 million cosmic sources and delivering the most complete ...

This breathtaking clue about the architecture of consciousness supports a Nobel-Prize winner’s theory about how quantum physics works in your brain.

The shape of the cosmos depends on a balance of two competing forces: the pull of gravity and the expansion driven by dark ...