For thousands of years, humanity has looked up at the night sky with a profound sense of wonder. We have mapped the constellations, charted the movements of the planets, and […] ...

According to a new theory, our universe developed from a “pre-inflationary multiverse” made of particles in quantum superposition.

Deep space has just delivered a cosmic riddle that refuses to fit any familiar category. Astronomers using some of the most powerful observatories ever built have identified a vast, dim structure that ...

Cosmic voids may seem like the emptiest places in the universe, stripped of matter, radiation, and even dark matter. But they’re far from nothing. Even in these vast empty regions, the fundamental ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: A mysterious reddish object that formed only 90 million years after the Big Bang was observed by the James Webb Space Telescope. If it is a galaxy, ...

A mysterious 10-second signal just rocked the world of astrophysics — and it came from 13 billion light-years away. In what researchers are calling one of the most extraordinary cosmic events ever ...

In the latest episode of "Star Trek: Starfleet Academy" (read our season 1 review here). the character of Sam (Kerrice Brooks) reveals that she's serving as an emissary for her home planet of Kasq, a ...

One would think that this excellent question would be easy to answer: A bucket full of “deep space” would contain essentially nothing — and, well, there you are! Outer space is, after all, the closest ...

Star Trek: Starfleet Academy has made first contact with Deep Space Nine. The freshman season’s Feb. 5 episode, "Series Acclimation Mil,” dove headfirst into the advanced studies course that is the ...