This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features the spiral galaxy Messier 77, also known as the Squid Galaxy. Everything on Earth, in our solar system, our galaxy, and beyond is contained within ...

To echo what others have said: there very well could be other intelligent life out there, but the vast expanse of the universe is simply too far to be traveled for any different life forms to meet ...

When you bake a loaf of bread or a batch of muffins, you put the dough into a pan. As the dough bakes in the oven, it expands into the baking pan. Any chocolate chips or blueberries in the muffin ...

The reason that teams on multiple telescopes in all different directions could hear this noise is that this annoying sound was actually the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB)—radiation left over from ...

Today, let’s talk about the super mysterious existence in the universe — black holes. Black holes have always been a key ...

It's a question that has puzzled both stargazers and scientists for centuries. From our tiny corner of the cosmos, it's hard to grasp the sheer scale of space, let alone the idea that the Universe ...

Our universe may have been born in a gravitational crunch that formed a very massive black hole—followed by a bounce inside it. The Big Bang is often described as the explosive birth of the universe—a ...

The universe is poised to die much faster than previously thought, according to new research by Dutch scientists. But there's no great need to panic. We still have 10 to the power of 78 years before ...

For years, scientists have worked to chart the universe’s massive structure, aiming to test key models of cosmology. These efforts also help uncover how galaxies form and change over time. While most ...

Rob Coyne receives funding from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and the US National Science Foundation (NSF). About a century ago, scientists were struggling to reconcile what ...

God is everything, and everything is God. That is, according to pantheism, an umbrella term for a set of beliefs that suggest God did not create the universe—but that God is the universe. For hundreds ...