Dava Sobel, the author of that fascinating book Longitude, quoted Galileo: “The Bible teaches us how to go to heaven, not how ...

Pinpointing a Milepost Marker Star that Opened the Realm of Galaxies At the dawn of the 20th century, astronomers faced a ...

The youngest and most metal-rich stars, such as the Sun, are called Population I. Older stars with fewer metals are Population II. The oldest stars, the very first stars to appear in the Universe, are ...

Young supernovas could have spread water out into the cosmos, causing planet formations earlier than originally thought.

Bill Prady, co-creator of "The Big Bang Theory," revealed why the elevator in the series is broken and why it was never fixed ...

Hubble’s work pushed the field of astronomy forward, starting with his paper demonstrating that some objects exist outside our galaxy.

The universe is weirder than we ever imagined! Dive into the mystery of the Big Bang’s true location and uncover what it ...