A new theory suggests windows of opportunity, not a series of improbable events may have helped humans gain a foothold in the ...

In a nutshell New research challenges the long-held belief that human evolution required improbable “lucky breaks,” ...

“Our existence is probably not an evolutionary fluke,” says Jennifer Macalady, a study co-author and microbiology professor ...

A unique dataset of Type Ia supernovae being released today could change how cosmologists measure the expansion history of ...

In 1920, astronomers Harlow Shapley and Heber Curtis held a Great Debate. Shapley argued that the spiral nebulae were small and in the Milky Way, while Curtis took a more radical position that they ...

In the quantum realm, the past, present, and future blur into a boundless structure. But consciousness may operate on a plane ...

After hundreds of hours of observations, researchers captured a highly detailed image of a long filament of the "cosmic web" ...

Astronomers used an array of telescopes to find the most massive radio jet in the early universe. The celestial object is ...

Discover the extraordinary Einstein ring discovered by the Euclid space telescope. A perfect ring of light encircling galaxy ...

The Einstein ring, formed as light from a distant galaxy bends to glow around another object in the foreground, could help ...

The "dark universe detective" space telescope Euclid has discovered its first Einstein ring in the process, learning about ...

Physicists have performed a groundbreaking simulation they say sheds new light on an elusive phenomenon that could determine the ultimate fate of the Universe.