For centuries, telescopes have relied on curved lenses and mirrors to observe the Universe. A team of researchers has ...

Water may have first formed 100–200 million years after the Big Bang, according to a modeling paper published in Nature ...

For centuries, the optic lens has bent light through translucent, curved material, but now flat lenses are reimagining the ...

When you look around the universe you live in, it looks like a 3D space, just like the surface of the Earth looks like a 2D ...

A new NASA space observatory, called SPHEREx, is scheduled to launch into orbit Thursday on a mission to map more than 450 ...

The planetary alignment sees Venus, Mercury, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Neptune, and Uranus visible in the night sky all at once.

You live on the surface of a giant sphere, like a beach ball the size of the Earth with a few bumps added. The surface of the ...

"Shorelines are great locations to look for evidence of past life." Today, Mars is a chilly desert of rock and dust — but 4 ...