When you look up at the night sky, it seems deep black with bright stars scattered across it. That familiar view leads many ...

Physicist Sean Carroll explains how physics, astronomy, philosophy, and classics all help us understand the expanding ...

The standard cosmological model (present-day version of "Big Bang," called Lambda-CDM) gives an age of the universe close to 13.8 billion years and much younger when we explore the universe at ...

You might think galaxies can’t ever find each other in our runaway cosmos, but it turns out gravity can sometimes overcome ...

Using gold flakes, salt water, and light, scientists have made the universe’s invisible binding forces visible in color. The ...

A massive star 2.5 million light-years away simply vanished — and astronomers now know why. Instead of exploding in a supernova, it quietly collapsed into a black hole, shedding its outer layers in a ...

Dan Trachtenberg's third Predator movie is the most substantial evolution of the sci-fi franchise to date and boldly embraces ...

The earliest black holes in the universe may not have disappeared from Hawking radiation after all, new research hints. Instead, they fed on the energy of the ancient cosmos to grow supermassive.

Project Hail Mary, Disclosure Day, Supergirl and more films reveal 2026 is a prime year for science fiction fare.

Curious minds wonder about the universe's stars. Scientists estimate trillions of galaxies, each with billions of stars, leading to a mind-boggling total of 10²² to 10²⁴ stars. This number, exceeding ...

A new theory suggests the universe’s greatest secrets are hiding in a “zeptouniverse” that’s ready to be explored—without ...

Astronomers have produced the most detailed map yet of dark matter, revealing the invisible framework that shaped the Universe long before stars and galaxies formed. Using powerful new observations ...