A team of researchers believe they have identified a large, rotating structure 140 million light-years away from Earth. The ...

The surface of Earth is finite. We can measure it. If it was expanding, then its size would grow with time. And once again, ...

Most of the universe is made up of dark matter and dark energy. The majority of everything else is dispersed throughout space ...

Where is the center of the universe? Learn why researchers say the rules may not apply to the center of the universe.

This means that it would still take a little over four whole years of traveling at lightspeed to reach the red dwarf—not that ...

In the leading model of cosmology, most of the universe is invisible: a combined 95% is made of dark matter and dark energy.

There are plenty of awesome objects in the universe, made more marvelous by scientists’ ability to image and understand the laws and processes that make them possible. Each year, researchers make new ...

How the universe got its large magnetic fields has remained one of the stickiest outstanding problems in astrophysics. Now, researchers have proposed a novel solution: a giant "dust battery" operating ...

If we could farm in space, astronauts would have fresh, familiar foods. Those plants could recycle air and water. Plus, it feels good to be around plants. Once more people – and maybe even cats – can ...