Using the world’s largest digital camera, Rubin will capture a full view of the southern sky every three days.

Israeli-American physicist Avi Loeb says that if humans encounter technologically superior aliens and manage to befriend them, we can live as a species in the cosmos longer than the stars in the ...

Scientists propose that gravitational waves shaped the universe. Their model challenges inflation theory. How exactly did the universe start, and how did these processes determine its formation and ...

Roper Mountain Science Center is celebrating 40 years of providing educational experiences in Greenville. The center ...

Gauging the mass of a black hole is tricky, but astronomers have devised multiple methods to measure the heft of these galactic gluttons ...

Astronomers have long relied on supercomputers to simulate the immense structure of the Universe, but a new tool called ...

Some are no bigger than pebbles, while others stretch for miles, silently orbiting the sun in the asteroid belt or zipping ...

A decade after the first discovery, scientists have used these waves to find a unique merger, a massive binary system and a ...

One of the prettiest garden plants are cosmos, which are easy to grow in either partial sun or, preferably, full sun. A native of Mexico, the daisy-like flowers come in a variety of colors and species ...

Carl Sagan's Cosmos: A Personal Voyage is the most groundbreaking television series of all time. Airing in 1980, it brought complex scientific concepts to the layman's grasp, rendering science ...

Psychological science is really just our best shot at making sense of how people think, feel, and act. It’s rooted in old philosophy but runs today on experiments, observation, and data. Back in the ...