BEIJING -- China's Einstein Probe (EP) astronomical satellite has captured an X-ray flash from a rare and elusive binary star ...

John Kounios is a professor of psychological and brain sciences at Drexel University. He is co-author of The Eureka Factor: Aha Moments, Creative Insight, and the Brain (Random House, 2015) and ...

Planet demographics reveal a puzzling lack of worlds in a certain size range throughout the galaxy F or centuries our solar system was the only planetary system known to humans. We had no proof other ...

Neutrinos are sometimes called “ghost particles,” because they are nearly weightless, rarely interact with any other matter, ...

Experts Stunned After Witnessing Rare Phenomenon Known as the 'Einstein Ring' Captured by a Space Telescope Countless cosmic ...

In 1920, astronomers Harlow Shapley and Heber Curtis held a Great Debate. Shapley argued that the spiral nebulae were small ...

In 1908, a 30-meter-wide (98-foot-wide) asteroid struck the Podkamennaya Tunguska River in a remote Siberian forest of Russia, according to the Planetary Society. The event leveled trees and destroyed ...

Could a climate megaproject cloud Chile's unparalleled views of universe? But a huge green energy project, part of Chile's plans to become carbon neutral, risks clouding the view, scientists say.

As civilizations advance, they may need to migrate across the galaxy, and some researchers speculate they could use their own stars as massive engines. New research explores the possibility of a ...

Revolutionary technique allows astronomers to capture incredibly high-resolution images of distant galaxies and supermassive black holes.