The universe’s expansion rate was supposed to be a solved problem, yet the latest high precision map of the early cosmos has ...

So first the Big Bang happens. Everything is incredibly hot and dense; there are photons flying everywhere, but they keep ...

Douglas Scott is professor of physics and astronomy at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada. He collaborated with George Smoot at Berkeley. Joseph Silk is professor of physics at ...

Some scientists believe life could be hiding in our own solar system. But how could that be if there are no other planets or moons that mirror the conditions of our utopic blue dot? After all, Earth ...

Orbital AI: Tech titans bring up raw futurism on value of space-based AI In a mind-bending fireside chat that's already sparking interstellar buzz, Elon Musk and NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang dropped a ...

For more than a decade, NASA’s Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope has quietly mapped the high-energy sky, searching for subtle ...

New details from the Webb telescope indicate there might be a fundamental problem with our understanding of the universe. The spiral galaxy NGC 4258, imaged by the Hubble Space Telescope, measures ...

Tinkering at their desks with the mathematics of quantum space and time, physicists have discovered a puzzling conundrum. The arcane rules of quantum theory and gravity let them imagine many different ...

Dark matter may be invisible, but scientists are getting closer to understanding whether it follows the same rules as everything we can see. By comparing how galaxies move through cosmic gravity wells ...

A power outage Thursday at West 4th Street-Washington Square disrupted subway service for the second time this week, the MTA said. The transit agency suspended B train service in both directions just ...

Purchasing power reflects how much can be bought with a set amount of money over time. Inflation reduces purchasing power, meaning money buys less due to rising prices. To outpace inflation, ...

TAMPA BAY, Fla. — As Hurricane Helene makes its way north in the Gulf of Mexico, thousands across the regions were expected to lose power at some point during the storm. Officials with Duke Energy and ...