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 ...

This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features a galaxy that's hard to categorize. The galaxy in question is NGC 2775, which lies 67 million light-years away in the constellation Cancer (the Crab ...

In Taunton, Edwin Paige Jr., age 72, passed away suddenly at Morton Hospital on September 25, 2025. Edwin leaves his beloved wife Patricia (Mendes) Paige of Dighton. He was born in Taunton, the son of ...