Some acorns might require cold stratification before they will sprout. The main stem got stuck that's why it sprouted two new ...

Scientists at Stanford are working on a new under-construction observatory in Chile which, when complete, will be used to ...

A team of astrophysicists have found flares of light in Sagittarius A*, a supermassive black hole in the center of the Milky ...

NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory captured a massive 'tornado' on the sun in multiple wavelengths. Unlike the Earth, "tornadoes on the sun are controlled by magnetism," according to Space Weather.

You may think that time started 13.8 billion years ago at the birth of the universe, but physicists with alternative ...

Newly discovered Quipu, a superstructure in which galaxies group together in clusters and clusters of clusters, is the ...

Earlier this month Vodeb and his colleagues published the findings of their cosmic bubble simulation in Nature Physics. Using ...

New research suggests that dark energy isn't needed to explain the acceleration in the expansion of the universe — instead ... the universe's growth over time. Decades ago, researchers used ...

Stars form in regions of space known as stellar nurseries, where high concentrations of gas and dust coalesce to form a baby ...

The SPHEREx mission will image 1 billion galaxies, 100 million stars, and 10,000 asteroids – and help to answer some of the biggest scientific mysteries.

Seen as a long strand with smaller threads branching, the Quipu superstructure contains 68 galaxy clusters spanning 1.4 ...

A cosmic filament, 3 million light-years long, has been directly imaged for the first time — offering a new glimpse into the ...