Astronomers have discovered the surest signs of primordial magnetic fields in sophisticated computer simulations of the early ...

A series of viral social media posts drew attention to an old cosmological theory-that our universe began from a collision between two separated universes-as a brand new scientific ...

A doctoral candidate from the University of Washington may have heard a cosmic explosion that explains how the Moon came into ...

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On Monday, a paper announcing that all four DNA bases had been found on an asteroid sparked a lot of headlines. But many of ...

The Sony Spider-Man Universe, or SSU, is effectively dead. It went out, not with a bang, but with a bomb. Or rather, a ...

Amy Gravitt on being first to satirize AI with Valerie Cherish's return, "full slate", 'Big Bang' spinoff & more Larry David.

The ALICE Collaboration takes a step further in addressing the question of whether a quark–gluon plasma can be formed in proton–proton and proton–nucleus collisions. In the first few microseconds ...

A breakthrough in the cosmic caper came in 2023, when a team of researchers led by Anna de Graaff, a Clay Fellow at the Harvard–Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, used the Webb telescope to analyze ...

What Looked Like a Planet Was Actually a Massive Space Collision So, imagine astronomers are looking at something, thinking, ‘Wow, cool planet!’ Then, bam! Turns out it wasn’t a planet at all, but a ...

From a second-chance romance to a deeply unsettling psychological horror to an exploration of the cosmos, WBUR literature writer Katherine Ouellette recommends nine books that confront the world in ...

Scientists studying a mysterious effect called cosmic birefringence—a subtle twist in the polarization of the universe’s oldest light—have developed a new way to reduce uncertainty in how it’s ...