The school-bus-sized observatory launched on April 24, 1990 and overcame early setbacks to become one of the most ...

Penn physicists were among more than 13,000 researchers from 70 countries who shared the Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental ...

The Hubble tension, a long-standing puzzle in cosmology, arises from conflicting measurements of the universe’s expansion ...

The strongest evidence yet that life may exist on a planet outside our solar system has been found by a team of astronomers led by the University of Cambridge.

Who Built it and Why? Despite it being humanity's constant companion through all of recorded time, the moon is still a mystery. Science hasn't been able to explain how the moon was formed, its unusual ...

Astronomers have spent decades trying to find Earth-like planets beyond our solar system. These worlds are small, cold, and ...

When AI takes over the practice of science we will likely find the results strange and incomprehensible. Should we worry?

The UC criteria would become the standard version that high schools would offer. In turn, UC and CSU ethnic studies faculty ...

Scientists have found new but tentative evidence that a faraway world orbiting another star may be home to life. A Cambridge ...

Understanding the formation of stars together with their subsequent evolution and identifying the physical processes that ...

I addressed a topic that some individuals have seemingly become specialists in, which is producing and sharing videos that ...

Scientists may have finally found the universe’s missing matter - hidden in invisible hydrogen gas far beyond galaxies.