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 ...

Humans have sought to understand existence since the earliest times. This quest led to the creation of texts exploring ...

You think you know Stonehenge. The iconic rock towers standing against a green field and a gray English sky are one of the ...

Belief that a ‘corrupt elite is secretly running the world’ is one of the longest-running and most widespread conspiracy ...

Scientists use the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) to spot more nitrogen than oxygen in GS 3073 and speculate the presence ...

An international set of case studies suggests that ignoring people’s spiritual worlds blinds clinicians to key sources of ...

National Geographic Explorer Paul Salopek is retracing the path of human migration. More specifically, the scientific ...

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

These villains are so old and powerful that they see humans as mere insects whose lives begin and end within the blink of an ...

Current physics is speeding toward a breaking point, as astronomers confirm that the Hubble tension in new data.

The James Webb Space Telescope has found compelling evidence for "monster stars" — gigantic, primordial stars that existed in ...

For much of the twentieth century, scientists expected the expanding universe to slow over time. The opposite turned out to ...