Scientists using the James Webb and Hubble space telescopes have confirmed one of the biggest head-scratchers in modern ...

Given a star with known parallax, the distance to its twin is assumed to be directly related to the difference in their apparent magnitudes. We found 175 twin pairs from the science public archive of ...

When it comes to measuring cosmic distances, astronomers rely on several methods, which are known collectively as the Cosmological Distance Ladder. From these measurements, scientists can ...

In the distance a lone man, short of stature ... I remember in my dark times, wondering 'Is this some kind of cosmic joke? There's this person out there who's empty inside, he's just a little shell.

The use of artificial intelligence (AI) scares many people as neural networks, modeled after the human brain, are so complex ...

Dark energy, the mysterious phenomenon that powers the expansion of the universe, may undergo periodic 'violent transitions' ...

Astronomers at the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy just constructed a detailed, three-dimensional map of the cosmic dust in our galaxy. The map makes use of 130 million spectra from the ...

On the five-year anniversary of Covid, a look at the ways we vowed our lives and relationships would change afterward — and how they still might. By Melissa Kirsch Where were you in March of ...

The best way to experience the White Mountains’ Presidential Range is hiking between the Appalachian Mountain Club’s eight historic high-mountain huts. Connecting distances aren’t ridiculous—the ...