Trying to understand the Universe is often less about seeing it clearly and more about accepting how quickly our intuition ...

Imagine shrinking Earth to the size of a small ball to reveal just how vast the Universe is. If it were 12 centimeters wide, Jupiter would stretch over a meter across beside it. But the Sun would be ...

We’ve found lots of “habitable” worlds but we don’t know what factors are needed for life. There are lots of reasons to search for planets around other stars—exoplanets. A big one is to find other ...

New measurements of radio galaxies reveal that the solar system is racing through the universe at over three times the speed predicted by standard cosmology. Using highly sensitive data from multiple ...