Since humanity's earliest days, people have looked up at the stars, using science, art, religion, philosophy, mathematics, and any other tool at their disposal to better understand the complicated and ...

A new three-volume study explores how quantum physics, gravitation and cosmology may be understood within a unified ...

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James is a published author with multiple pop-history and science books to his name. He specializes in history, space, strange science, and anything out of the ordinary.View full profile James is a ...

Rest assured that as everything seems to be falling apart on Earth, it also appears that the rest of the universe is on a downward trajectory, too. In new research that gauged several vital signs of ...

The catastrophic collision of a black hole and a neutron star sent ripples across the universe. New analysis of those ripples could upend a major theory about how these extreme pairs form.

Now physicists from the University of Washington are taking a big swing at answering that question. All matter exerts gravitational force. The more mass the object has, the greater the force. Yet, a ...

The Atacama Cosmology Telescope (ACT) in Chile has released its final batch of data after 15 years — and it proves that the Hubble tension, a rift in our understanding of the universe, is very real.

This article was originally published at The Conversation. The publication contributed the article to Space.com's Expert Voices: Op-Ed & Insights. If you look across space with a telescope, you'll see ...

Visit NAP.edu/10766 to get more information about this book, to buy it in print, or to download it as a free PDF. We live in an extraordinary period of exploration. Over the last few decades, humanity ...

Last year, the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) released its most detailed map of the universe yet. And with it, sent ripples through the cosmology community. The results suggested that ...