Astronomers have discovered a vast and enigmatic bridge of gas stretching across 185,000 light-years, connecting two distant ...

Due to its stellar activity, the galaxy has become a favorite for astronomers using the Hubble Space Telescope ...

Ding dong, October is here! Despite a hectic start to the school year, autumn is slowly taking its place and inviting us to ...

Scientists are confident that dark matter exists because of its gravitational effects on a grand scale in the universe ...

They call it dark matter—an invisible substance thought to make up most of the universe’s mass, sculpting galaxies and ...

Dark matter makes up about 85 percent of all matter in the universe. It neither emits nor absorbs light, making it invisible ...

Recent astronomical observations have unveiled unexpected patterns in the spins of galaxies throughout the universe, leaving ...

My son is overseeing preparations at the National Cathedral in Washington, D.C., for the funeral of anthropologist Jane ...

This quirky British sci-fi comedy from the 80s, unexpectedly became a profound meditation on loneliness and human existence.

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The first double-burst supernova ever observed, SNR 0509, is a historic discovery that reveals how white dwarfs explode in ...