(THE CONVERSATION) Long before the current political divide over climate change, and even before the U.S. Civil War (1861-1865), an American scientist named Eunice Foote documented the underlying ...

The cool conditions which have allowed ice caps to form on Earth are rare events in the planet's history and require many ...

Astronomers have discovered what seems to be a star racing through the Milky Way at 1.2 million mph, dragging a Neptune-sized ...

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

A “ghost particle” discovered by a detector in the Mediterranean carried 30 times more energy than any neutrino observed to ...

A huge detector in the Mediterranean Sea spotted the most energetic neutrino from space to date. The particle could shed light on the universe’s most extreme phenomena.

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

Gravitational lensing occurs when the gravity of a massive object, like a galaxy, warps the fabric of spacetime, bending the light from a more distant background object.

Euclid, the European Space Agency’s dark Universe detective, has made an astonishing discovery – right in our cosmic backyard ...

Scientists who just months ago confirmed that Earth’s inner core recently reversed its spin have a new revelation ...

Sebastian Currier’s “Mysterium” is based on the husband-and-wife team of scientist Robbert Dijkgraaf and novelist Pia de Jong.

Researchers said on Thursday that they had discovered twin-lobed radio jets they suspect were formed when the universe was ...