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

Until recently, Type Ia supernovae have been treated by cosmologists as the gold standard of cosmic distance determination: quite uniform “standard candles” whose peak brightness was reliable over all ...

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

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

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 ...

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For centuries, Europeans thought that eternal daylight saturated the cosmos. The shift to a dark universe has had a profound ...

A new way to study 3D maps of galaxies in the cosmos without compressing the data is revealing new information about the dark universe. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an ...

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 ...

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 ...