A team of astronomers has identified a double gravitational lens system with an extraordinary “zig-zag” light path, rewriting ...

Scientists uncovered evidence that astrophysics models of massive stars and supernovae are inconsistent with observational ...

There is a region of the sky where astronomers fear to look. Filled with dark clouds of dust, it hides an unseen mass. A mass ...

Astronomers have identified three ultra-massive galaxies -- nearly as massive as the Milky Way -- already in place within the first billion years after the Big Bang. This surprising discovery was made ...

This study presents the first physical evidence that Snowball Earth reached the heart of continents at the equator.' ...

The actual connection between physics and molecular biology is that curvature and torsion are the most probable solutions ...

The chances of intelligent life emerging in our universe—and in any hypothetical ones beyond it—can be estimated by a new ...

A novel theoretical model based on universal expansion and star formation suggests that our universe might not have the ...

Since the discovery of the acceleration, theorists have calculated that the universe will continue to expand faster and ...