The Copernican principle states that the Earth is not in a special place in the Universe. Us humans are not privileged ...

Our universe does host life, but it’s not the most optimal universe for life. Published in 1962 by American astronomer Frank Drake, Ph.D., the eponymous Drake equation sought to estimate the number of ...

Space is already filled with plenty of mysteries, and black holes may be among the strangest. Here are some of the questions ...

Authors Ian Tregillis and George R.R. Martin develop a formula to capture the dynamics driving viral behavior in the Wild ...

Mysterious little red dots threatened to overhaul modern cosmology—but new research may have solved the celestial conundrum.

"This process is like a cosmic CT scan, where we can look through different slices of cosmic history and track how matter ...

By employing a new and improved supercollider, scientists are hoping to dissect the very fabric of the Universe and calculate ...

The science that was repulsive to an idea of religious belief thus began to embrace religious ideas culminating with the discovery of the Higgs boson or ‘God particle’, completing the stan­­-dard ...

When we look at the planets aligning, we are reminded that the universe operates in perfect harmony, following the same ...

Matter that enters an event horizon can’t escape back out. What’s the 3D region extending for a short distance out from the ...

The majority of our evidence for dark matter’s existence comes from observing visible (or baryonic) matter that does not ...

A new study suggests that the explosive deaths of the universe's earliest stars created surprising quantities of water that ...