Like stretch marks left on skin that expanded too quickly or cracks embedded in freezing ice, cosmic strings are artifacts of ...

From the fall of an apple to the glow of the farthest known star, gravity quietly choreographs almost everything that happens ...

To scientists, asteroids are cosmic time capsules. They’ve remained mostly unchanged since the solar system’s birth, making them perfect subjects for understanding how planets—and even life—came to be ...

"Whether you want to explore dark energy, dying stars, galactic powerhouses, or probably even entirely new things we’ve never seen before, this survey will be a gold mine." When you purchase through ...

It’s hard to picture the universe in its infancy. The middle-aged cosmos now stretches across 93 billion light-years, holding up to two trillion galaxies and more than 200 billion trillion stars. But ...

Cosmic Watch app, the abstract concept of time becomes a tangible experience on any mobile phone and tablet. This technical innovation made in Switzerland leads the astronomical clock into the digital ...