Andromeda and the Milky Way merge. NASA; ESA; Z. Levay and R. van der Marel, STScI; T. Hallas; and A. Mellinger Share Curious Kids is a series for children of all ages. If you have a question you’d ...

While the show primarily adapts the romance between rival hockey players Shane Hollander (Hudson Williams) and Ilya Rozanov (Connor Storrie), the latest episode, “Hunter,” follows another couple in ...

Stephen DiKerby receives funding from the National Science Foundation. Whether the universe will “end” at all is not certain, but all evidence suggests it will continue being humanity’s cosmic home ...

An expanding universe complicates this picture just a little bit, because the universe absolutely refuses to be straightforward. Objects are still emitting light, and that light takes time to travel ...

The universe’s expansion might not be accelerating but slowing down, a new study suggests. If confirmed, the finding would upend decades of established astronomical assumptions and rewrite our ...

Source: GPT-5 / OpenAI Who owns fictional characters? Is it the person who brings them to life, or the fans who admire or even love them? Should writing stories about one’s favorite characters be seen ...

Rest assured that as everything seems to be falling apart on Earth, it also appears that the rest of the universe is on a downward trajectory, too. In new research that gauged several vital signs of ...

Earlier this year, Euclid—a European telescope tasked to create the largest 3D map of the universe—sent back troves of cosmic data from deep space. Astronomers have since been hard at work picking ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: A new paper adjusts an equation that defines our universe in response to recent new data. The cosmological constant, which describes how our universe ...

Evidence now suggests the universe’s expansion has started to slow, not speed up. The findings imply dark energy is weakening, marking a possible revolution in cosmology. A groundbreaking new study ...

His latest book, Discordance, fits into the class of conventional popular cosmology, in so far that it is an account of how our present understanding of the Universe has emerged. But it is also, with ...