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 ...

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

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...