Our Solar System orbits the galactic center at an estimated 792,000 kilometers per hour, taking 225 million Earth years to ...

The geometry of space, the setting in which physical laws operate, may hold clues to some of the biggest unanswered questions in fundamental physics. The underlying structure of spacetime itself could ...

Encouraged by successes in understanding black holes, theoretical physicists are applying what they’ve learned to whole ...

New measurements of radio galaxies reveal that the solar system is racing through the universe at over three times the speed ...

The universe is expanding faster and faster, but not all scientists agree that dark energy is the cause. Perhaps, instead, our universe keeps colliding with and absorbing smaller 'baby universes,' a ...

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A longstanding question has lingered over physics labs and philosophy departments alike: could our universe be nothing more ...

Way out in interstellar space, Voyager 1 is roaming where no human has ever been, revealing secrets of our universe more than 15 billion miles away. Today, the story of its nearly 50-year journey ...

Astronomers have proposed a new theory to suggest why our universe is expanding at an accelerating rate. That our universe is expanding is in wide agreement, though how exactly that process happens is ...

Now, researchers in Switzerland and the U.K. have homed in on one particular aspect of this equation to contemplate how a crucial component of our universe affects star formation and, by extension, ...

Amateur astronomer Tom Lynch will make his presentation at the Massapequa Public Library, located at 40 Harbor Ln., on Dec.