By: Clara Moskowitz Published: 05/02/2013 02:07 PM EDT on SPACE.com In the next five years or so, scientists are poised to discover proof that spa...

By: Jesse Emspak, LiveScience Contributor Published: 04/28/2013 09:35 AM EDT on LiveScience The speed of light is constant, or so textbooks say....

By John Matson All supernovae are bright. When a star ends its life in a cataclysmic explosion, it emits a burst of energy and light that can outshi...

By: Rod Pyle, SPACE.com Contributor Published: 04/17/2013 02:05 PM EDT on SPACE.com PASADENA, Calif. — Our universe didn't need any divine hel...

By Zeeya Merali When the European Space Agency’s Planck mission team unveiled the most detailed map yet of fluctuations in the cosmic microwave bac...

Imagine you could go back 13.8 billion years to the dawn of time. What do you think you would hear during the Big Bang? We may not have time machines ...

By: Mike Wall Published: 04/09/2013 06:14 PM EDT on SPACE.com In a cosmic first, astronomers have discovered a black hole chowing down on what may...

By Sid Perkins Some of the most powerful explosions in the universe just got a bit more varied. Astronomers have already categorized two broad group...

PARIS -- A new examination of what is essentially the universe's birth certificate allows astronomers to tweak the age, girth and speed of the cosmos,...

Astronomers from around the world gathered today in northern Chile for the long-awaited inauguration of the Atacama Large Millimeter/Submillimeter Arr...

By: Clara Moskowitz Published: 03/08/2013 05:22 AM EST on SPACE.com The giant black hole at the center of the Milky Way is preparing to gobble up ...

LOS ANGELES -- There's a new spin on supermassive black holes: They're incredibly fast, astronomers say. It's long been suspected that gigantic black...

By Irene Klotz BOSTON (Reuters) - Scientists are still sorting out the details of last year's discovery of the Higgs boson particle, bu...

Unlike scientific claims, beliefs cannot be arbitrated to determine which is valid because there is no objective basis on which to compare one set of beliefs to another. Those two world views are not closer than we think; they are as far apart as could possibly be imagined.

By: Charles Q. Choi Published: 12/19/2012 03:30 PM EST on SPACE.com A number of the largest black holes in the universe may be even bigger than pr...

It's enough to make you alternately laugh and cry. But this daffy performance speaks to a problem even larger than Broun's dreadful ignorance. Why is this gentleman in Congress at all?

Travel to a location far from any major city or other sources of terrestrial light--preferably to the top of a mountain somewhere, surrounded by natural habitat, rather than villages or towns. Stay up after dark, and spend some time looking at the night sky.

So far, the Higgs boson has been a disappointment. Of course, it was a major discovery that generated worldwide attention.