Faith, rooted in 'why' questions, demands complete submission and relies on the unknown, often attributing answers to God.

This controversial theory says the universe is subject to an ultimate, higher-order law that we can’t comprehend.

HD 140283, better known as the Methuselah star, is around 200 light-years from Earth, in the constellation of Libra. It is ...

A pair of once-in-a-lifetime comets are rocketing through our skies right now, and it's a rare treat because they won't be ...

A faint radio "whisper" from ancient hydrogen reveals the universe was heating up long before it filled with starlight.

Scientists figured out that the universe is billions of years old — after years of reading ancient rocks and dying stars, and ...

For two decades, scientists believed the cosmological constant, known as λ (lambda), was positive. That meant the Universe ...

A new study from David Kipping attempts to explain why we are located around a yellow star, and so early in the universe.

Jamie Foster, the assistant director of the Astraeus Space Institute at the University of Florida, spoke at the Flagler Tiger ...

Astronomers using nine years of MWA data have set the strongest limits yet on the 21-cm hydrogen signal from the universe’s ...

Researchers from The University of Western Australia node at the International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research (ICRAR) ...

Even with modest assumptions, the Drake Equation often suggests the galaxy should be chock full of extraterrestrial neighbors ...