In the past, people thought the Earth was the center of the universe and everything revolved around it. This was a fairly ...

According to a tenet scientists call the cosmological principle, our place in space is in no way exceptional. But recent ...

But try to point to the center of Earth's surface, like on a map. It could be at 0-0 latitude and longitude; it could be at the poles; it could be at your grandma's house. Any point is just as ...

If the universe curves back on itself like the screen in the classic video game Pac-Man, these anomalies might be crucial for understanding its shape. To get the idea think about the contrast between ...

Galaxies are the building blocks of the universe. Clusters of galaxies ... Just as we have found that Earth is not the center of the solar system, and the Sun is just another star in the Milky ...

The Webb telescope — a scientific collaboration between NASA, ESA, and the Canadian Space Agency — is designed to peer into ...

In the stunning new book Universe: Exploring the Astronomical ... Each of the 50,000 dots represents an entire galaxy. The Earth, once believed to sit at the center of it all, is in truth a ...

A Yale-led team of astronomers has detected an intensely brightening and dimming quasar that may help explain how some ...

Put simply, around 14 billion years ago, all matter and energy in the universe was at a point of ... It is thought the Earth was formed around 4.6 billion years ago from dust and gas left after ...