For decades, scientists assumed that life on Earth emerged through a chain of highly improbable flukes. But a new theory suggests it may have instead arrived just in time.

New research suggests that dark energy isn't needed to explain the acceleration in the expansion of the universe — instead ...

Earlier this month Vodeb and his colleagues published the findings of their cosmic bubble simulation in Nature Physics. Using ...

In 1920, astronomers Harlow Shapley and Heber Curtis held a Great Debate. Shapley argued that the spiral nebulae were small ...

In the hush between star-bright infinities and the hum of everyday tasks, a quiet summons persists. No single measurement or ...

Humanity may not be extraordinary but rather the natural evolutionary outcome for our planet and likely others, according to ...