Anaxagoras, a visionary Greek philosopher, foresaw concepts of expanding universe and multiple worlds centuries before modern science.

"The Big Beginning" is the eighth installment in the Symphony of Science music video series. It deals with the origins of our universe, covering the Big Bang theory, expansion and cooling of the ...

From planet-scorching stellar outbursts to cataclysms so powerful they shiver the very fabric of spacetime, these are some of the biggest blasts our cosmos has to offer ...

The wonders of the universe never cease to captivate, with each discovery unlocking new mysteries and expanding our understanding of the cosmos. From the awe-inspiring beauty of distant galaxies to ...

"It is exciting to think that Little Red Dots may represent the first direct observational evidence of the birth of the most ...

Rocket Lab just launched its first mission of 2026. An Electron rocket carrying two satellites for the European company Open ...

Peter Aleshire’s article about Meteor Crater, published in the Jan. 16 Independent, combined in my mind with an article I wrote that was published on Nov. 22, 2024 about the ...

Astronomers found evidence that dark matter and neutrinos may interact, hinting at a "fundamental breakthrough" that ...

A hundred years ago, quantum mechanics was a radical theory that baffled even the brightest minds. Today, it's the backbone ...

Koch, who studied vision, thought that by measuring people's brain responses as they looked at special optical illusions, ...

Known as dinosaur stars for both their primeval nature and their immense size, Population III stars existed only when the ...

Carl Sagan - Perhaps the Greatest Scientist of Modern Times ...