There are only two kinds of questions we can ask about the world and our place in it: problems and mysteries. The French existentialist philosopher Gabriel Marcel got this distinction right when he ...

The Hubble Space Telescope completes a high-resolution portrait of our galaxy's gorgeous neighbor, which will help scientists better understand our Milky Way.

A solar explosion called a coronal mass ejection is poised to graze Earth on Friday or Saturday (Jan. 24 or Jan. 25), ...

Stella Nova is the first of three new resorts opening at Universal Orlando this year. Here's a first look inside this stellar ...

Across cosmic history, powerful forces have acted on matter, reshaping the universe into an increasingly complex web of structures. Now, new research led by Joshua Kim and Mathew Madhavacheril at the ...

Scientists think a small rock discovered near Earth last August was hurled into space by an ancient impact on the lunar surface.

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In an article published in Physical Review Letters on Thursday, scientists carried out an innovative study testing the existence of mirror asymmetries in our universe by studying the handedness of the ...

Hubble Space Telescope mapped Andromeda, revealing a chaotic history shaped by mergers. A 2.5-billion-pixel mosaic shows 200 ...

ASHLAND Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s “Beloved Community” is a global vision in which all people can share in the wealth of the earth. Those two words — and the contents of that vision — were repeated ...

Astronomers have traced a mysterious fast radio burst to an unexpected place — an ancient, massive galaxy far removed from ...

Some say this 160-mile trip down one of North America’s last truly wild river systems rivals the Grand Canyon in terms of scenic wonder.