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The odds are slim, but the consequences would be literally world-ending. There really is a chance of a black hole devouring the Earth.

It might not feel that way, but a 95% dark Universe really is the best game in town. No matter how much we might try and hide it, there’s an enormous […]

With ~400 billion stars in the Milky Way and 6-20 trillion galaxies overall, that makes for a lot of stars. But not as many as you’d think.

Science has come a long way since Mary Shelley penned “Frankenstein.” But we still grapple with the same questions.

It is difficult to save a species that does not seem to care about saving itself.

We pretend as if economic sanctions are a peaceful way to coerce others into behaving. In reality, they are a potent tool of modern warfare.

American students are being compelled to specialize earlier and earlier. Here’s what it takes to build a successful physics foundation.

The human brain is only the latest chapter in the ancient story of thinking on Earth.

Inventions with revolutionary potential made by a mysterious aerospace engineer for the U.S. Navy come to light.

Journaling helped Marcus Aurelius cultivate the emotional intelligence necessary to steer Rome through turbulent times.

Even with all the recent impacts we’ve seen, it might be more “foe” than “friend” to us.

Roughly half the world population, including in America, has insufficient levels of vitamin D. UV irradiated mushrooms can help.

The answer may depend on your lifestyle.

The Hubble Space Telescope, 32 years after its launch, broke the all-time record for most distant star. It won’t do better.

We cannot deduce laws about a higher level of complexity by starting with a lower level of complexity. Here, reductionism meets a brick wall.

Start fighting back against planned obsolescence.

Today’s young people are intelligent and kind, but they are overworked and burned out.

An optical telescope with a massive 20-foot (6-meter) mirror has an eye-popping price tag of $11 billion.

In the most extreme cases, spiraling prices can lead to a collapse in a currency’s value.

Galactic archaeology has uncovered a spectacular find: the Milky Way already existed more than 13 billion years ago.

The answer to the age-old philosophical question of whether there is meaning in the Universe may ultimately rest upon the power of information.

And, at some point, did the Milky Way lose ours? There are some 400 billion objects flying through the Milky Way galaxy with enough mass that — if they were all made of […]

The Sun produces a wide variety of particles and radiation throughout it, but all of its neutrinos are produced in the core: where nuclear reactions take place. The various reactions […]

Is science absolute? Its truths and discoveries guide us toward the nature of reality, but we must always remain open-minded to revisions.

Time always moves in the same direction, but what if the Universe were contracting? As we step forward in time, a number of things always seem to happen together. Objects […]

Alibaba has played a key role in China’s meteoric economic rise.

The ‘final parsec problem’ is still a mystery for astronomers. When it comes to black holes in the Universe, we know there are at least two major types. There are […]

Willpower alone likely isn’t enough to replace a bad habit with a good one.

Our huge, expanding Universe may truly be infinite. But if the set of possible quantum outcomes is also infinite, which “infinity” wins?

A physicist creates an AI algorithm that predicts natural events and may prove the simulation hypothesis.