Most messages are press releases about astronomical discoveries—okay, scratch that; most of them are spam, but science announcements are an easy second place. But I also get questions from readers ...

The universe has been expanding ever since the Big Bang almost 14 billion years ago, and astronomers believe a kind of invisible force called dark energy is making it accelerate faster. Dark energy, ...

That the universe is expanding has been known for almost a hundred years now, but how fast? The exact rate of that expansion ...

The shape of the cosmos depends on a balance of two competing forces: the pull of gravity and the expansion driven by dark ...

“For the last 20 years, people believed that the cosmological constant is positive, and the universe will expand forever,” says Tye, a professor emeritus at Cornell. A positive constant acts like a ...

The cardinal-archbishop of Chicago has profoundly reshaped the American hierarchy over the past 10 years and is poised to exert a lasting influence. L to R: Archbishops Michael McGovern of Omaha, ...

San Diego Comic-Con is shaping up to be an epic gathering for Critical Role fans. Prime Video is bringing the cast and creators of both Mighty Nein and The Legend of Vox Machina to the Indigo Ballroom ...

In a galaxy far, far away, there lie clues to the cosmic dawn—the first few hundreds of millions of years in our 13.8-billion-year-old universe’s early history. On Wednesday astronomers on announced ...

Scarface, The Right Stuff, and Star Wars: Episode VI- Return of the Jedi are all among the best movies from 1983 that can all ...

On a recent afternoon, Carl Jackson and his family were hunting for pythons on a dirt road about 30 miles east of Naples in Big Cypress National Preserve. Jackson said he turned his truck around to ...

Algae blooms are expanding across the world's oceans. The first global study of floating algae was recently released by researchers at the University of South Florida College of Marine Science and the ...