Scientists figured out that the universe is billions of years old — after years of reading ancient rocks and dying stars, and ...

Scientists figured out that the universe is billions of years old - after years of reading ancient rocks and dying stars, and ...

On Oct. 13, 1773, a French astronomer named Charles Messier discovered the "whirlpool galaxy," also known as Messier 51, or ...

Over the course of human history, perhaps no single object in the night sky has drawn more attention than the Andromeda Galaxy, which the 10th-century Persian astronomer Abd al-Rahman al-Sufi dubbed a ...

On this day in science history Sept. 17, 1999: Jesse Gelsinger died after receiving a gene therapy treatment to treat a liver ...

Astrophysicists have presumed for nearly a century that the universe will just keep expanding for all eternity, driven by an ...

On the night of Oct. 5, 1923, Edwin Hubble observed a strange star that flickered in intensity at regular intervals. The star ...

On Oct. 4, 1923, Edwin Hubble took a photographic plate of the Andromeda Nebula (as it was known then) using the 100-inch Hooker telescope at Mount Wilson. The next night, Oct. 5th, he took another ...

Two French mathematicians, West London-based Olivier Bonnassies, 59, and Michel-Yves Bolloré, 79, from Paris, say 'Science is ...

bGerman Center for Mental Health (DZPG), Partner Site Berlin-Potsdam, Germany cGerman Center for Mental Health (DZPG), Partner Site Jena-Halle-Magedeburg, Jena, Germany dFaculty of Medicine and ...

Sunday's flop against the Miami Marlins would be a miserable way for any New York Mets player to end his stint with the franchise. Yet some of the team's most notable players have major decisions to ...

NGC 2775 has features of both spiral and elliptical galaxies. Astronomers have long sorted galaxies into types based on their visible structure. Spiral galaxies, like our Milky Way, have a flat disk, ...