Is the universe infinite? It's one of the most profound questions we can ask, and here's the short answer: We don't know. While we have learned a great deal about the universe, a portion of the cosmos ...

Earlier this year, researchers reported the most massive black hole merger ever detected. But the event was so unusual that questions around its origin sowed confusion within the astrophysics ...

Few things in the universe are as perplexing as dark matter — the invisible and exotic “stuff” that is thought to make up most of the matter in galaxies. The theory goes like this: To reconcile our ...

Kanika Sharma is a freelance journalist based in Noida, India. This Nature Q&A series celebrates individuals who have fought racism in science and who champion inclusion. The series often highlights ...

CARTERET COUNTY, N.C. (WITN) - Troopers say a man driving more than 100 miles per hour and not wearing a seatbelt was killed in a crash this morning. It happened around 9:45 a.m. on Nine Mile Road, ...

A team of astrophysicists from Ireland's Maynooth University, led by Dr Emma Whelan, will use information gathered by the Mauve telescope to study how stars and planets form Ireland's Maynooth ...

An astrophysicist from the University of Lancashire has joined forces with Queen legend Sir Brian May to create a book about space. Professor Derek Ward Thompson teamed up with Sir Brian and ...

One thing about 3I/ATLAS is for certain: It's definitely not from Earth's solar system. But what exactly is the intriguing interstellar object discovered speeding through our cosmic neighborhood? Most ...

The Dark Forest theory is one proposed solution to the famed Fermi Paradox, which has bewitched astronomers for more than half a century. To put it concisely, the paradox asks if the cosmos is nearly ...