Beyond numbers and scales, this video reflects on what it means to exist inside such immensity. It shows how, despite our ...

Mysterious blasts of radio waves from across the universe called fast radio bursts help astronomers catalog matter. ESO/M. Kornmesser, CC BY-SA If you look across space with a telescope, you’ll see ...

Since conventional explanations have failed to pony up dark matter, one physicist is looking towards the unconventional. In a series of two papers, physicist Stefano Profumo of the University of ...

According to astronomers, there are approximately 200 billion trillion stars in our observable universe — chances are, there’s life out there somewhere. When you purchase through links on our site, we ...

"We have no way to determine how different exoplanets really look in detail yet, and this makes them a rich space for creativity." When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...

There are so many stars in the universe—hundreds of billions of them in our galaxy alone, which is, in turn, one of some 125 billion galaxies in the observable universe—that it would be surprising if ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Chris Impey, University of Arizona (THE CONVERSATION) If you look across space with a ...