At just 25, Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin applied quantum physics to a treasure trove of astronomical observations to show that stars are mostly hydrogen and helium.

COSMOS-Web was the largest General Observer program selected by the James Webb Space Telescope for Cycle 1. The team, led by RIT Associate Professor Jeyhan Kartaltepe, has publicly released its full ...

Let’s first talk about how mysterious dark energy is. Einstein, back in the day, added a cosmological constant to his equations to make the universe "static," but later regretted it, calling it the ...

When LIGO detected gravitational waves unleashed from two colliding black holes for the first time in science history, it set off a whole new era in astronomy.

Albert Einstein’s mind reinvented space and time, foretelling a universe so bizarre and grand that it has challenged the limits of human imagination. An idea born in a Swiss patent office that evolved ...

The relationship between music, science and maths are deeply entwined. We could all benefit from learning more about it.

Scientists showed off the largest-scale color map of the universe in 3-D this month, as part of an effort to determine how matter has clumped together over the past few billion years. This ...

At the Heilongjiang Provincial Science and Technology Museum, an eye-catching "VR Large Space Science Exploration Experience Exhibition" has quietly opened. This exhibition not only represents a new ...

Carl Sagan understood the power of storytelling in making science relatable. By wrapping narratives around facts, he captured the viewers's imagination. This way, he demystified complex ideas (like ...

Editor’s note (December 26th 2021): On December 25th the telescope was successfully launched, after several delays. IT IS A majestic beast. Its primary mirror, a tessellation of golden hexagons, ...

A new TV series starring Aiden Gillen (Game Of Thrones, The Wire) "Killers Of The Cosmos" is coming to the Science Channel and Discovery+ streaming service and will premiere Sept. 19 9pm ET/PT. The ...

How did the universe get the way it is? This largest of science’s questions was attacked with vigor by the bold “Cambridge cosmologists” at the Oxford convention of the British Association for the ...