The Masters of the Universe action figure line has made the weirdest characters look super cool for 40 years. They made a man made of moss look cool, and even a guy who looks (and stinks) like a skunk ...

Scientists uncover the universe’s most massive object, glowing yellow, blue, and pink at 100 million °C, while a true inferno ...

Mikhail Ivanov, Oliver Philcox, and Marko Simonović won the New Horizons Award for their work on large scale structures — the strands and filaments of our universe which contain buried clues to its ...

I’m getting email and tweets about a Flash-based interactive tool where you can zoom in and out on the Universe, getting a scale of things from the tiniest fluctuations in the quantum foam of space to ...

image: Researchers led by the University of Tsukuba carried out simulations of large-scale structure formation in the Universe that accurately reproduce the dynamics of ghost-like particles called ...

The universe began with an unimaginably hot, dense state. Inflation rapidly expanded the universe's size. Before inflation, the universe existed in a period called the GUT era where forces were ...

The BOSS survey has scanned the sky measuring the redshifts of more than 1 million galaxies, yielding a three dimensional picture of luminous sources in our Universe covering about 4.5 billion years.

The Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (BOSS) has scanned the sky measuring the redshifts of more than 1 million galaxies, yielding a 3-D picture of luminous sources in our universe covering ...

Astronomers are getting some answers to an age-old question. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Paul M. Sutter is an astrophysicist ...