Science still faces mysteries like dark matter, consciousness, and the origin of life—questions that challenge researchers and push the limits of understanding.

Kenna Hughes-Castleberry is the Content Manager at Space.com. Formerly, she was the Science Communicator at JILA, a physics ...

He led a team of scientists who helped confirm that a Big Bang was the source of the universe. The discovery earned him a ...

We explore a material more precious than gold that didn’t originate on our planet.

Theorists have found that a “warm” version of cosmic inflation is consistent with known physics, linking it to the hunt for ...

The Big Bang theory has dominated our understanding of the universe’s origin for almost 100 years. It describes a moment when ...

The graceful movements of dancers across the stage to a variety of melodies tell stories of looking skyward. “Cosmos: A ...

In 1867, Lord Kelvin imagined atoms as knots in the aether. The idea was soon disproven. Atoms turned out to be something ...

When the National Science Foundation announced a competition to fund institutes in astronomy and AI in the summer of 2023, ...

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

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.

Star Trek may be one of the most iconic franchises in pop culture history, but it's also taken some missteps with some ...