Elusive black hole radiation predicted by Stephen Hawking may have influenced the way the universe took shape after the Big ...

Hycean worlds, which are a possible kind of exoplanet with deep oceans surrounded by a thick envelope of hydrogen, could ...

ALMA researchers reported the discovery of oxygen in the most distant known galaxy. Geologists believe unusual structures in ...

NASA launched a new space telescope into orbit to explore the origins of the universe. The mission will use sophisticated ...

New observations with the Atacama Cosmology Telescope in Chile reveal the earliest-ever "baby pictures" of our universe, ...

Francis Collins, a geneticist who led the Human Genome Project, is a notable example. A devout Christian, Collins sees no contradiction between his faith and his scientific work. He argues that ...

In the chaotic aftermath of Mongol expansion in the mid-13th century which had left the Abbasid capital of Baghdad in ruin, a new centre of learning soon came to the forefront. Ironically it was the ...

The theme of knowledge and the inevitability of human curiosity are central to “Orb: On the Movements of the Earth.” Or at ...

Seleucus of Seleucia was an ancient astronomer who defended heliocentrism, arguing that Earth orbits the Sun and rotates on ...

1. The accidental discovery of X in 1964 — even though its existence had been predicted in 1948 — set off a series of ...

By T.J. Ray Columnist Since we call oranges orange, why don’t we call lemons yellows and apples reds? Future shock occurs when you are confronted by the fact that the world you were educated to ...