Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. I’ve always loved looking up at the night sky. Even though I didn’t pursue science in college, the outer world has never stopped ...

You’ve looked up at the night sky. Maybe you’ve wondered how much you don’t know. Turns out, the scale of our ignorance about the cosmos is staggering. Recent findings are challenging what we thought ...

Observations don’t match the predictions of the standard model—and it’s not just a fluke.

If there is an absolute law in the universe, it’s that nothing can travel faster than the speed of light. For science-fiction enthusiasts, that’s a bit depressing. Space is big, and while the speed of ...

Out there in the Universe, there are plenty of amazing things waiting to be discovered. At every level of reality, there’s a great set of mysteries, puzzles, and facts just waiting for us to uncover ...

Start off in any direction and fly through the universe. Out of our solar system, beyond the edge of the Milky Way, through the forest of galaxies that make up our Local Group into the wilderness of ...