As customers face more and more prompts to add a tip to the bill in places where gratuities were not customary only a few years ago—and often before any service has been rendered—their attitudes ...

An exoplanet is any planet beyond our solar system. Most of them orbit other stars, but some free-floating exoplanets, called ...

New simulations reproduce high-redshift galaxies seen by JWST and propose a radical cosmological shift beyond ΛCDM. To simulate the universe with ...

Compact ruddy galaxies seen by the James Webb telescope confound astronomers. Having very little spin at birth may explain the galaxies’ small sizes.

Stories about the existence of aliens, and our chances of detecting them, tend to be positive. We are told that we might ...

Detecting exoplanets is one thing, but imaging them is another thing entirely. Astronomers can detect them by the way they ...

A physicist proposes that time has three dimensions instead of one, which could finally unite quantum mechanics and ...

The Uncanny X-Men have been a pillar of Marvel Comics for over 40 years and counting. However, status aside, when you’re ...

No telescope has basked in the night sky quite like the enormous new Vera Rubin Observatory. Here's what it could reveal about the universe.

A potential solution to the decades-long “missing matter” problem has been uncovered in astronomers' recent analysis of X-ray ...

A new study suggests they may have a ghostly shadow—trailing dark matter spirals hovering above and below them. A team of ...

John Travolta made a surprise appearance at Friday night’s “Grease” sing-a-long at the Hollywood Bowl dressed as his iconic drag racing, hip swinging 1950s bad boy Danny Zuko. “Tonight at ...