A team led by the Italian National Institute for Astrophysics discovered the most distant known fossil galaxy — a relic of ...

For centuries, people have looked to the stars, asking how it all began—and how it might end. Now, thanks to a bold new study ...

New simulations suggest that dozens of ultra-faint “ghost” galaxies may be orbiting the Milky Way, hidden from current ...

According to a provocative new study, that might just be our cosmic address. This idea is meant to solve one of the biggest ...

This video explores Euclid's “First Light” images, released in November 2023, less than a year after its launch. These stunning debut images from ESA's space telescope offer an unparalleled view of ...

Researchers are using machine learning, symbolic regression, and high-performance computing to explore and classify string ...

Twenty years ago, something happened when Pablo Peña sat in Prof. Gary Becker’s doctoral-level course at the University of Chicago. As the economist lectured on human capital theory, a concept he’d ...

Images of the cosmos, such as the James Webb Space Telescope’s deep space snapshot, make space look chock-full of stuff. In the grand scheme of things, it is, but all those stars, galaxies, planets, ...

Does something like "free will" really exist? We often take it for granted, but philosophers, psychologists and ...

Since its development 100 years ago, quantum mechanics has revolutionized our understanding of nature, revealing a bizarre ...

Infographic on the binary black hole merger that produced the GW231123 signal. Credit: LIGOScientists have detected the most ...