Contrary to popular belief, our universe may not be constantly expanding after all. A groundbreaking study by South Korean ...

But the Big Bang theory predicts that about 5% of the universe's contents should be atoms made of protons, neutrons and ...

The James Webb Space Telescope blasted off from a launchpad in French Guiana in 2021, before reaching a spot in orbit a ...

The shape of the universe is not something we often think about. My colleagues and I have published a new study that suggests ...

An international team of astronomers has achieved a first in probing the early universe, using the James Webb Space Telescope ...

Are we living in “The Matrix” in real life? In the 1999 science-fiction film, Neo discovers that the universe is a simulation — but one scientist believes that the idea isn’t all fiction. Dr. Melvin ...

"A bit like dinosaurs on Earth — they were enormous and primitive. And they had short lives, living for just a quarter of a ...

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 ...

A century ago, Edwin Hubble began the race to the edge of the cosmos Damond Benningfield In 1930, Albert Einstein met with astronomers (including Edwin Hubble, at Einstein's left, back row) at Mount ...

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 ...

By studying faint distortions in galaxy shapes across a vast region of sky, scientists probed the hidden structure of the universe. In the standard picture of the universe, nearly everything is hidden ...

Chris Impey has received funding from NASA, NSF, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, and the Templeton Foundation. If you look across space with a telescope, you’ll see countless galaxies, most of which ...