The fundamental nature of living things challenges assumptions that physicists have held for centuries.

The Atacama Cosmology Telescope in Chile has released its final batch of data after 15 years — and it proves that the Hubble ...

Our universe is filled with galaxies, in all directions as far as our instruments can see. Some researchers estimate that ...

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While the 21st century has been bumpy, it has also ushered in monumental scientific and technological breakthroughs that have ...

Rocky planets like our Earth may be far more common than previously thought, according to new research published in the ...

By studying faint distortions in galaxy shapes across a vast region of sky, scientists probed the hidden structure of the universe. In the standard picture of the universe, nearly everything is hidden ...

A classical nova may look simple at first. A faint star brightens, sometimes enough for you to spot without a telescope, then slowly dims over weeks or months. Behind that short burst of light sits a ...

For the first time, astronomers have captured the brilliance of a superluminous supernova via gravitational lensing.

Two new stars, or nova eruptions, have been resolved in unprecedented detail by six optical telescopes operating in unison as ...

Sarah Fortune, a marine ecologist at Dalhousie University in Nova Scotia, and her colleagues used drones and camera-equipped ...

A new study identifies a mechanism for how COVID vaccines may, in infrequent cases, drive heart inflammation, a condition ...