It’s “common knowledge”—and the scare quotes should be a warning—that the sun is an average star.

Dimensions beyond the four we’re familiar with could solve a host of problems in physics and cosmology. Columnist Leah Crane ...

The word “big” doesn’t mean much once you leave Earth. Our planet feels massive until you stack it next to Jupiter. Jupiter ...

In this video, we explore the vastness of the universe and attempt to quantify its size. We delve into the concepts of cosmic ...

This also means that there could be hidden curvatures of space-time or gravitational fields, which could explain a fundamental issue in physics: the hierarchy problem. There are several ongoing ...

CERN is nothing like today's agentic AI jockeys, who mostly rely on pre-set weights and generic TPUs and GPUs to generate ...

Observations show the universe appears flat, yet its true size and global shape beyond the observable horizon may remain forever unknown.

Science in the modern era is increasingly reliant on enormous datasets and automated analysis. In astronomy, the Vera C. Rubin Observatory's Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST)—a ten-year survey ...

Astronomers have found that both the core of our Milky Way and the earliest proto-galaxies in the universe share a surprising trait: They are unusually calm and quiet in terms of harsh radiation. This ...

Following BYU’s early exit in the first round of the NCAA Tournament, Kevin Young was asked how he feels this year will ...

“Project Hail Mary,” the movie adaptation to Andy Weir’s 2021 novel about a science teacher attempting to save the Earth from sun-eating microbes, was released in March 2026 to stellar ratings from ...

When a chunk of ice breaks off a glacier, that’s called calving. That can happen if the glacier gets warm or some other force ...