Astronomers have used all sorts of tricks over the years to try to convey the mind-boggling scale of the universe to us ordinary folks. If you could drive your car from here to the nearest star at 60 ...

It’s hard to fathom the size of the universe. But two Stony Brook University professors are part of a project designed to do just that — an effort scientists say is making advances. Researchers in the ...

Kurzgesagt’s latest In a Nutshell video takes us once more to the depths of space to look at the scary phenomena that are black holes. Rather than go into topics like dark matter and how black holes ...

When the universe's first stars emerged from the cosmic dark ages, they ballooned to 10,000 times the mass of Earth's sun, new research suggests. When you purchase through links on our site, we may ...