Most of what people casually call “the universe” is not where instinct suggests. Stars, planets and glowing gas clouds are only the bright frosting on a much larger cosmic cake, and the bulk of the ...

Mysterious blasts of radio waves from across the universe called fast radio bursts help astronomers catalog matter. ESO/M. Kornmesser, CC BY-SA Chris Impey, University of Arizona If you look across ...

Forget everything you know about solid, liquid, and gas. Researchers just predicted a completely new state of matter that operates like nothing you’ve encountered-and it could reshape our ...

The explanation for this magnetic chaos, scientists now believe, lies near the center of these distant planets. Where Earth has molten iron churning in its outer core, Neptune and Uranus have ...

If you look across space with a telescope, you'll see countless galaxies, most of which host large central black holes, billions of stars and their attendant planets. The universe teems with huge, ...