It is widely accepted that the universe is expanding at an accelerating rate, but now researchers say our measurements of the ...

The universe's expansion may actually have started to slow rather than accelerating at an ever-increasing rate as previously ...

As if dark energy weren't already mysterious and baffling enough, new research suggests that this unknown force may not be ...

There’s a coastal village in Massachusetts that somehow escaped the tourist-trap curse that befalls most seaside destinations. While everyone else is battling traffic to get to the Cape or fighting ...

A remarkable new study challenges the findings of Nobel Prize winning research into how our universe has changed over time.

Archaeologists have uncovered evidence of a ritual-based site that may have been built long before the rise of Maya rulers ...

Spotted from an airplane by remote sensing equipment, a vast and ancient Maya complex was hidden from view for millennia by forest and fields before it was made public in 2020. Five years on, ...

Researchers using new simulations suggest that the Milky Way’s past collisions may have reshaped its dark matter core. This ...

Best wishes to the Roger Sterling of Florida politics, the often funny and always wise David Johnson. Here’s hoping he enjoys ...

James Webb Space telescope spots 'big red dot' in the ancient universe: A ravenous supermassive black hole named 'BiRD' ...

At the heart of the Milky Way, just 27,000 light-years from Earth, there is a supermassive black hole with a mass of more ...

How do we know the speed of light – and why does it have a speed limit at all? Leah Crane explores the history of one of the ...