The Big Bang theory has dominated our understanding of the universe’s origin for almost 100 years. It describes a moment when ...

NASA scientists have detected traces of water on the mysterious interstellar object 3I/Atlas, sparking new discussions about the possibility of life elsewhere in the universe.

Led by doctoral student Tatsuya Kotani and Professor Tomoharu Oka from Keio University, the research team measured the temperature of the cosmic microwave background radiation, which is the faint ...

Over decades of DC Comics lore, some supervillains have failed to gain the adulation of they deserved. And that ends now.

Star Trek may be one of the most iconic franchises in pop culture history, but it's also taken some missteps with some terrible storylines here and there.

The long-debated idea that we might all be living in a computer simulation—popularized by science fiction films like The Matrix—has taken a major hit.

When we ask, as humanity does through eternity, whether light can return after darkness, perhaps the answer is already within us. For the Divine, too, whispers across ages: let there be light. This is ...

Daniel Whiteson and Andy Warner’s upcoming book is a philosophical exploration of the humanity behind our desire to find ...

So no, Gotham isn’t calling. But if you look up at the night sky and think you see Batman’s signal, you’re not wrong. It’s just the cosmos — vast, anc ...

Using the James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers have captured the clearest picture yet of how galaxies formed in the early universe.

Astronomers discover a 3-billion-year-old white dwarf, LSPM J0207+3331, actively accumulationplanetary material long after its star’s death, revealing ongoing dynamics in ancient stellar remnants.

If it is a galaxy, it would be the oldest known galaxy in the cosmos, but it could also be a brown dwarf or an early black hole.