A novel theory suggests that the current expansion rate of the universe is not fixed, but was in fact quite different in the ...

Learn about the particles showering down on Earth and how scientists find them at annual Arthur H. Compton Lecture series ...

Space may appear timeless, but modern astronomy reveals dramatic changes unfolding across the cosmos. Using decades of telescope imagery, scientists have produced stunning time-lapse sequences showing ...

In honor of Women’s History Month, we spoke with the creators of new picture books that highlight the enduring influence and ...

They discovered that the host galaxy is incredibly massive — weighing in at over 40 billion times the mass of our Sun — and deeply obscured. The James Webb Space Telescope, which can peer through gas ...

Cosmic magnetic fields have puzzled scientists for 70 years, and the answer was hiding in plain sight all along.

"Claude Code and OpenClaw have sparked the agent inflection point," Huang pronounced. ( OpenClaw, formerly Clawdbot, is a ...

The local universe may be expanding more slowly than previously thought, a discovery that could relieve a pesky discrepancy ...

Science in the modern era is increasingly reliant on enormous datasets and automated analysis. In astronomy, the Vera C. Rubin Observatory's Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST)—a ten-year survey ...

The night sky appears perfectly still, but the universe is constantly changing in ways the human eye cannot see. By combining ...

Still in its original galaxy, a rare holdout from the second generation of stars sheds new light on the origins of the elements—and how massive supernovae reshaped the cosmos ...

A radical idea that resolves many quantum paradoxes suggests there is no objective view of reality. How can the cosmos be stitched together from interlocking perspectives?