Galileo precedes today’s physicists by many generations, but his work underscores the interplay of intellect and observation ...

Raised in the Lutheran church, Tycho was led to believe that the earth was the center of the universe, but his carefully ...

Although the occurrence climaxed on Jan. 21 with a conjunction—close alignment—of Saturn and Mercury, the planetary parade ...

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A unique dataset of Type Ia supernovae being released today could change how cosmologists measure the expansion history of ...

New data reveals a 3-million-light-year filament connecting two galaxies, each of which hosts a supermassive black hole.

A unique dataset of Type Ia Supernovae being released today could change how cosmologists measure the expansion history of the Universe.

(THE CONVERSATION) If you want to know what happened in the earliest years of the universe, you are going to need a very big, very specialized telescope. Much to the joy of astronomers and space fans ...

Scientists will separate the wheat from the chaff with the help of a tremendous amount of data processing and fitting the data to existing theories and models of the universe’s known objects.

Hoover Damned The existence of the quantum realm holds terrifying implications, insinuating so much uncertainty into our ...

Euclid's 3D map of the universe will delve back into 10 billion years of cosmic history, helping scientists investigate the mysteries of the dark universe: dark matter and dark energy. Hence ...