Astronomers have developed a groundbreaking computer simulation to explore, in unprecedented detail, magnetism and turbulence in the interstellar medium (ISM) -- the vast ocean of gas and charged ...

Astronomers didn’t even know sub-Neptunes existed until NASA’s Kepler mission uncovered them over the past decade. Although a ...

We have long taken it for granted that gravity is one of the basic forces of nature – one of the invisible threads that keeps ...

Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. That truism, now known as the "Sagan standard" after science ...

Quantum ideas describe particles and fields in tiny packages, but general relativity paints gravity as smooth curves in space ...

This scenario is sometimes called the “heat death” or the “big freeze”, and it’s a straightforward consequence of our best working theory for how the universe behaves. But if you asked ...

Scientists are using cosmic distortions in light to test a bold idea: that the Universe might not be as symmetrical as we’ve ...

The most recent measurement of a nearby galaxy cluster is deepening a disagreement about how fast the universe is expanding — ...