When I was a kid, I was fascinated by the Powers of 10 video, which came out in the 1970s. Perhaps you remember it, with the ...

WASHINGTON: Astronomers have spotted two hefty white dwarf stars - highly compact stellar embers - orbiting close together that appear destined to die in an extraordinarily violent quadruple ...

When the two dense stellar remnants, known as white dwarfs, finally merge, they will trigger a Type 1a supernova, a powerful thermonuclear explosion that scientists predict will shine nearly ten times ...

A team of astronomers has created the largest 3D map of our universe to date and tracked dark energy’s influence on the ...

Black holes power some of the most energetic phenomena in the known universe, but could they ever power an advanced human ...

For a truly supersized wilderness experience, few places on Earth can compete with the United States of America. The US is a ...

Until they age out of their nursery, those stars will hang out in NGC 346, a majestic stellar cradle. The Hubble Space Telescope has captured that cradle in dazzling detail, rivaling even the James ...

From its beginning in Wright’s Detroit basement, the museum has cultivated increased visibility for all African Americans by ...

The most distant and earliest "dead" massive galaxy ever seen shows some galaxies lived fast and died young shortly after the ...

What happens if, after all our searching, we don’t find any signs of life on other planets? A group of scientists led by Dr.

Nestled in Florida’s panhandle, where the state’s familiar flatness gives way to surprising elevation, Torreya State Park in Bristol stands as living proof that the Sunshine State has been holding out ...