Some scientific discoveries take place in a lab. Others are made deep in the rainforest, along the ocean floor or on the dark side of the moon. And still others are made squelching through mud and ice ...

According to the equations that govern black holes, the larger one of these cosmic behemoths is the lower its average density ...

Deep beneath South Dakota, scientists are closing in on one of the greatest mysteries in the universe — the true nature of ...

High in Chile’s Atacama Desert, the ALMA Telescope peers deeper into the cosmos than ever before. With its vast network of antennas, it’s revealing how galaxies, stars, and planets are born — ...

New research suggests that technological civilizations in the Milky Way are extremely rare, with the closest potentially ...

Astronomers have long thought the universe should look generally the same in every direction, but an anomaly in the radiation ...

Even before the first stars lit up the Universe, the Cosmos was not the cold place most researchers once imagined. New ...

Nobel laureate Dr. George Smoot, who conducted groundbreaking research into the origins of the universe, has died. He had ...

We all know space is cold, but some places are so extreme they make even Antarctica look comfortable. Scientists have […] ...

Is it downright adorable, or is it so ugly it's cute? Either way, this newly discovered pink fish has the makings to survive in one of the darkest, coldest places on earth, and its pink, bumpy face is ...

Dark matter is an elusive type of matter that does not emit, reflect or absorb light, yet is predicted to account for most of the universe's mass. As it cannot be detected and studied using ...