The brightest gamma-ray burst ever detected is revealing new mysteries as scientists study it in greater detail. In two new papers – one published today in The Astrophysical Journal Letters, and...
Nearly a century has passed since scientists broke the Universe. Through a complex mix of experiment and theory, physicists discovered an engine built on the mathematics of probability ticks away...
A newly proposed propulsion system could theoretically beam a heavy spacecraft to outside the confines of our Solar System in less than 5 years – a feat that took the historic Voyager 1 probe 35...
The Big Bang may have been accompanied by a shadow, "Dark" Big Bang that flooded our cosmos with mysterious dark matter, cosmologists have proposed in a new study. And we may be able to see the...
Rocky exoplanets orbiting red dwarf (M-dwarf) stars are among the most promising and abundant astronomical targets for detecting habitable climates. Planets in the red dwarf habitable zone are...
A man and his family have signed up to preserve their bodies in liquid nitrogen tanks, in hopes they'll wake up in the future. Dennis James Kowalski, 54, told Insider he first learnt about cryonics...
It's easy to envisage other universes, governed by slightly different laws of physics, in which no intelligent life, nor indeed any kind of organized complex systems, could arise. Should we...
The new animation shows the gamma-ray sky’s frenzied activity during a year of observations by the Large Area Telescope (LAT) aboard NASA’s Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope. The pulsing circles...
The concept of zombies has been popularized through movies, TV shows, and books for decades. The idea of a person turning into a mindless, flesh-eating creature has fascinated people for years....
The idea of intelligent life existing beyond our planet has captivated human imagination for centuries. From science fiction novels and movies to conspiracy theories and unexplained sightings, the...
