Believe it or not, there is a scientific reasons superheroes were born on Marvel's Earth. It's just too horrifying to ever be ...

Publication Alert! "The Secret Life of the Universe" by Dr. Nathalie Cabrol, the SETI Institute's chief scientist and Director of the Carl Sagan Center at the SETI Institute, is coming out this week, ...

Black hole mergers have long fascinated scientists, as these cosmic events offer a glimpse into the mysteries of the universe. Recent discoveries have revealed unprecedented details about these ...

The six-year Dark Energy Survey has released its full results, showing that two leading models of cosmology are equally valid — but both fail to explain one key observation.

After nearly a century of experts theorizing and searching for the universe’s most elusive component, a Japanese astronomer believes he has finally captured the first direct glimpse of dark matter, a ...

On what might have been the proudest day of Jack Burns’s long career in astronomy, he was sitting on a beach. Orbital dynamics and launch schedules wait for no one, and Burns couldn’t move his ...

Nearly 60 years ago, Rainer Weiss was asked to teach a course in general relativity at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He struggled with how to explain to his students Albert Einstein’s ...

Even the greatest of us is not without fault. It is a lesson that many superheroes have learned the hard way; for all their power, they are not perfect. Still, it is rare for one hero’s arrogance to ...