Wonder Bound, the product of a collaboration between Johns Hopkins University, the Space Telescope Science Institute, and the ...

A Rutgers astrophysicist is helping to solve a cosmic puzzle that has astronomers scratching their heads. The mystery centers ...

A bill in the Texas Senate will require school districts to have seatbelts on every single school bus in their fleet, no matter what year the bus was purchased. Districts that cannot afford to meet ...

A radical new theory begins with a central claim: consciousness is the fundamental field of reality; time, space, and matter ...

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For humans, the most important star in the universe is our Sun. The second-most important star is nestled inside the Andromeda galaxy. Don't go looking for it -- the flickering star is 2.2 million ...

This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features the spiral galaxy Messier 77, also known as the Squid Galaxy. CREDIT: ESA/Hubble & NASA, L. C. Ho, D. Thilker. Get the Popular Science daily ...

James is a published author with multiple pop-history and science books to his name. He specializes in history, space, strange science, and anything out of the ordinary.View full profile James is a ...

Many people wonder: if the universe is expanding, is there a point in space that serves as the “centre”? It seems intuitive to ask, how can something expand if there’s no specific starting point? The ...

New research suggests that dark energy isn't needed to explain the acceleration in the expansion of the universe — instead suggesting giant voids in space are creating an illusion. When you purchase ...

Editor’s Note (3/10/25): After a week of delays, NASA is hoping to launch SPHEREx and PUNCH on March 10 at 11:10 P.M. EDT, officials wrote in a statement. NASA is ready to launch a space telescope to ...

On the night of Oct. 5 to 6, 1923, Edwin Hubble discovered a new star — and revealed the utter vastness of the universe. Hubble was looking at the cosmos with the 100-inch Hooker telescope at the ...