NASA’s upcoming Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope is set to revolutionize our understanding of the universe with an ...

We measure the extremely long distances between things in space by light years. A light year is the distance that light travels in one Earth year. Light travels at about 300,000 kilometres per second.

The explosion of a star, called a supernova, is an immensely violent event. It usually involves a star more than eight times ...

The only place that's likely to happen is at the very center of our galaxy. And, for a while, there was an excess of ...

Only a few dozen of these short-lived binaries exist in the galaxy at a time, making the serendipitous find extremely valuable.

For nearly a century, scientists around the world have been searching for dark matter—an invisible substance believed to make ...

The fact that this carbon dust can potentially survive for centuries could change how we think about the building blocks of ...

A team of NYU chemists and physicists are using cutting-edge tools—holographic microscopy and super-resolution imaging—to unlock how cells build and grow tiny, dynamic droplets known as biomolecular ...

He is a photographer, those were his photographs of black city life we saw behind the credits, and that white and black Americans view the same situations through very different lenses is something he ...