I/ATLAS is set to reach its closest point to the Sun on Wednesday (October 29), at around 11:47 Universal Time (UT). The ...

About 50 light-years from Earth, a gas giant about half the mass of Jupiter orbits a sunlike star. The discovery of Pegasi 51 b ushered in a new era of exoplanet research.

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Up until now, the simulation hypothesis was deemed to be un-testable in philosophy and science and often dismissed as pure science fiction.

A scientific study disproves the idea that the universe is a computer simulation, proving reality cannot be reproduced by algorithms.

While Kurt Russell's role in Stargate might be a supporting one, he helped shape the movie into a veritable franchise.

APM 08279-5255 is a massive black hole (quasar) that contains about 140 trillion times the amount in all of Earth’s oceans ...

Ghost particles' can zoom through you without a trace. Scientists are getting to the bottom of this cosmic mystery ...

How could the principle of "radical mundanity" proposed by the Fermi paradox help explain why humans haven't found evidence ...

Host Ira Flatow will be joined by award-winning physicist Dr. Sean M. Carroll to discuss his book, “The Biggest Ideas in the ...

Very early dark energy (vEDE) may have accelerated the universe’s expansion just 380,000 years after the Big Bang, new ...

This is the first time the novel imaging technique has been applied to telescopes. For the first time, astronomers have ...