Earth’s turbulent atmosphere makes it hard to detect new planets from the ground. Astronomer Rebecca Jensen-Clem is working ...

On October 6 1995, at a scientific meeting in Florence, Italy, two Swiss astronomers made an announcement that would transform our understanding of the universe beyond our solar system. Michel Mayor ...

Black holes are so strange that physicists have long wondered if they are quite what they seem. Now we are set to find out if ...

Montgomery happened to find strikingly similar behavior in the prime numbers— specifically, the correlations between the ...

Exoplanet hunters Christopher Watson and Annelies Mortier explain the long search for a 'twin Earth' capable of sustaining ...

But when it came to this new piece of furniture, it couldn’t be a question of “like” alone, because this chair was also ...

An international research team has discovered a luminous galaxy hiding behind a quasar, revealing new insights into how galaxies can remain undetected even in well-studied regions of the cosmos.

Despite being a software company, Neuraspace also gets data from its own telescopes, which is where the Edge comes in. In ...

With some Lexington residents raising concerns about recovery residences — sometimes called sober living homes — in their ...

In addition to mayor, Matthews voters will decide who serves on the Matthews Town Board. Ten candidates are seeking one of ...

The federal government is keeping up appearances at Yosemite National Park, even as it’s furloughed much of its staff.