Your guides to the weird side of the web explore the mind-bending scale of the universe alongside a curated collection of ...

An observation has just shaken up what was known about the origin of water on Earth. The SPHEREx space telescope, newly ...

Curious Kids is a series for children of all ages. If you have a question you’d like an expert to answer, send it to ...

Like a celestial beacon, distant quasars make the brightest light in the universe. They emit more light than our entire Milky Way galaxy. The light comes from matter ripped apart as it is swallowed by ...

Mikhail Ivanov, Oliver Philcox, and Marko Simonović won the New Horizons Award for their work on large scale structures — the strands and filaments of our universe which contain buried clues to its ...

Step away from the scale and stop overthinking every single decision, Libra, because the cosmos is officially tired of watching you agonize over what to eat for lunch.