The fictional biologist in ‘Project Hail Mary’ claims that potential alien organisms might not be made of carbon or require water, unlike life on Earth.

For the most part modern human history in 40K starts with the rise of the Emperor and the Unification Wars. Before that very ...

It doesn't look good for Earth's Mightiest Heroes in the new reported ending for Marvel Studios' Avengers: Doomsday.

There was no joy for the Australian nominees at this year’s Academy Awards, but big strides were made for gender equality.

Astronomers have long treated the universe’s end as a remote abstraction, a number so large that it barely registers against human history. For decades, theoretical models placed that final darkness ...

A former Harvard physics lecturer and science communicator has said that heaven could have a physical location. While he draws on foundational ideas, such as Hubble’s law and the cosmic horizon, the ...

New data from major dark-energy observatories suggest the universe may not expand forever after all. A Cornell physicist calculates that the cosmos is heading toward a dramatic reversal: after ...

We’ve been told by science that the universe is expanding relentlessly, driven by a mysterious force called dark energy. Eventually, galaxies would drift so far apart that the night sky would go black ...

The standard cosmological model (present-day version of "Big Bang," called Lambda-CDM) gives an age of the universe close to 13.8 billion years and much younger when we explore the universe at ...

The big bang wasn’t a bang in the traditional sense—but it was nonetheless the start of important things: for one, space; another, time. Thirdly, it began the conditions and processes that eventually ...

In a TikTok video, a content creator named Ben Tarrolly asked single women how they spend their time when they live completely alone. In response, single women shouted loud and proud that they are not ...

Most messages are press releases about astronomical discoveries—okay, scratch that; most of them are spam, but science announcements are an easy second place. But I also get questions from readers ...