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No matter how you define the end, including the demise of humanity, all life, or even the planet itself, our ultimate destruction awaits.

From black holes to dark energy to chances for life in the Universe, our cosmic journey to understand it all is just getting started.

For the first time, astronomers have created a data-driven estimate for how many black holes are in our Universe: more than anyone expected.

What do you call it when the Earth shakes for three decades?

The DUNE project will beam tiny neutrinos across vast distances. But the first step involved moving a heavier material: 1 million tons of rock.

Extreme home environments — either very supportive or harshly negligent — tend to produce more sensitive kids.

We thought the Big Bang started it all. Then we realized that something else came before, and it erased everything that existed prior.

If there’s life lurking on the moons of Saturn and Jupiter, could our instruments even detect it?

Morning, afternoon, or night: When is the best time to exercise? Scientists have extensively studied this question. Here’s what they found.

In all the Universe, only a few particles are eternally stable. The photon, the quantum of light, has an infinite lifetime. Or does it?

Dr. Tyson explains where we might find aliens, why “dark matter” is a misleading term, and why you can blame physics for your favorite team’s loss.

Sci-fi enthusiasts have long hoped that a substance called antimatter might experience gravity opposite that of ordinary matter. It doesn’t.

Particle physicists use gigantic accelerators to investigate the infinitesimal.

Humanity is in trouble. Here’s how aliens could help.

In general relativity, white holes are just as mathematically plausible as black holes. Black holes are real; what about white holes?

NASA’s space telescopes and observatories bring humanity unrivaled science images and scientific discoveries. Here’s what should be next.

Deliveries of the $250k Lightyear 0 will start in November 2022.

Before there were planets, stars, and galaxies, before even neutral atoms or stable protons, there was the Big Bang. How did we prove it?

Whether you run the clock forward or backward, most of us expect the laws of physics to be the same. A 2012 experiment showed otherwise.

It could cut the time needed to reach Mars in half.

On the largest cosmic scales, galaxies line up along filaments, with great clusters forming at their intersection. Here’s how it took shape.

Frontier, the ORNL supercomputer, used machine learning to perform 9.95 quintillion calculations per second.

A community in Austin, Texas is using geothermal energy to keep homes warm in the winter and cool in the summer.

Many contrarians dispute that cosmic inflation occurred. The evidence says otherwise.

Physicists just can’t leave an incomplete theory alone; they try to repair it. When nature is kind, it can lead to a major breakthrough.

From surviving on wild plants and game to controlling our world with technology, humanity’s journey of progress is a story of expanding human agency.

A more distant galaxy liked the lens so much that it went and put a ring on it. Here’s the science behind this remarkable cosmic object.

With a massive, charged nucleus orbited by tiny electrons, atoms are such simple objects. Miraculously, they make up everything we know.

Now they’re pointing the way to future battery technologies.

How does star-formation, occurring in small regions within galaxies, affect the entire host galaxy that contains it? JWST holds the answers.