Today, the Big Bang Theory is accepted as the best explanation for how our universe began. But when it was first proposed, it ...

American Museum of Natural History Astronomer Dr. Jackie Faherty joins WIRED to answer the internet's burning questions about ...

Astronomers have discovered that a young galaxy was gradually starved by its central supermassive black hole, in what was ...

Astronomers report how a "death by a thousand blows" caused a galaxy in the early universe to stop forming stars, making it ...

American philosopher Quine wrote, “As an empiricist I continue to think of the conceptual scheme of science as a tool, ...

Researchers at the University of Minnesota Twin Cities and Universit´e Paris-Saclay have challenged a decades-old dark matter theory.

One of the world's most sophisticated scientific facilities is turning to ultra-low temperatures to try and unravel hidden ...

Researchers showed that dark matter can decouple while ultrarelativistic–or very hot–and still have time to cool before galaxies begin to form into what we know today. The key feature which enables ...

Neutrinos pass through you every second. Now, two mega-experiments have finally pinned down one of their deepest traits.

Ezra Klein and State Representative James Talarico of Texas discuss his faith, his politics and his Senate race.

Near absolute zero, atoms stop acting like particles and start behaving like waves. In this ultracold world, scientists can ...