By Ben BRAKOFor centuries, African spiritual philosophy was corralled at the margins of global thought—reduced by colonial narratives to folklore, or dismissed by rationalist currents as ...

Astronomer Michael R. Blanton will join the Carnegie Science Observatories as its 12th director, overseeing astronomical ...

Scientists are testing a novel way to measure cosmic expansion using time delays in gravitationally lensed quasars. Their ...

The Invisible Becomes Visible: Scientists May Have Finally Seen Dark Matter ...

There is an important and unresolved tension in cosmology regarding the rate at which the universe is expanding, and ...

Curiosity often expands in unexpected directions when the right science book lands in your hands, and this collection celebrates exactly that feeling. These titles challenge assumptions, reframe ...

In the leading model of cosmology, most of the universe is invisible: a combined 95% is made of dark matter and dark energy.

The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope has quietly crossed a threshold that turns a long‑planned mission into a near‑term ...

FROSTI is a new adaptive optics system that precisely corrects distortions in LIGO’s mirrors caused by extreme laser power.

The last two decades have not been kind to science studies. Already bruised and battered by the “science wars” of the 1990s, by the 2000s sociologists of science — who had l ...

The Nobel-winning author, whose newest book is out this week, discusses work by a few of her favorite writers.

NASA has finished building the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, completing assembly of the agency’s next flagship ...