In other words, it denies what is perceived, twists our senses and transforms words into an instrument of domination of our thoughts. We lose that world of meaning that anchors us in a shared social ...

In the early universe, moments after the Big Bang and cosmic inflation, clusters of exotic, massive particles could have ...

Recently, physics professor Robert Scherrer crunched the numbers to figure out what would happen if a low-mass black hole ...

A colossal star met an unexpected fate when it drifted too close to a supermassive black hole 10 billion light-years away.

Their work explores a little-understood chapter of cosmic history: the time between the universe’s rapid expansion—known as ...

New simulations reveal interstellar objects don't arrive uniformly, with concentrations from the solar apex and galactic ...

Silverman, Leah. "Astronomers Just Created The Most Detailed 3D-Map Of Our Galaxy Yet." AllThatsInteresting.com, November 14, ...

In the blink of an eye after the Big Bang, the universe could have birthed strange new stars and black holes.

Our own planet represents a tiny fraction of the peculiar phenomena that can be found lurking throughout the cosmos, and every day astronomers turn up new surprises. In this gallery, we take a look at ...

Researchers have mathematically proven that the universe cannot be a computer simulation. Reality, they argue, is rooted in a “non-algorithmic understanding” that no algorithm could ever replicate.

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, ...