The fundamental nature of living things challenges assumptions that physicists have held for centuries.

Little Foot is a near-complete Australopithecus skeleton — the most complete ever discovered — from South Africa. Researchers ...

The Atacama Cosmology Telescope in Chile has released its final batch of data after 15 years — and it proves that the Hubble ...

Our universe is filled with galaxies, in all directions as far as our instruments can see. Some researchers estimate that ...

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For a quarter century, cosmologists have treated dark energy as a fixed, featureless pressure that steadily drives galaxies ...

Borobudur’s significance declined sharply, not only from volcanic damage but also due to the fall of its patron dynasty and ...

Paul Sutter explores how ancient creation myths and modern cosmology answer the same questions, framing the Big Bang as a scientific creation story rooted in observation and theory ...

Discover the world's oldest written scripture! Explore the Rigveda (c. 1500 BCE), a collection of Sanskrit hymns, its historical dating, and fascinating facts.

Recent observational breakthroughs are beginning to challenge the long-standing view of dark energy as unchanging. Data from the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument ( DESI ), an advanced survey ...

As Neo faces infinite Agent Smiths in The Matrix Revolutions, a 2,500-year-old Upanishadic prayer quietly unfolds in the ...

Two exhibitions on view in New York delve into artists' long-standing fascination with the unknown, and what it says about ...