Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features the spiral galaxy Messier 77, also known as the Squid Galaxy. Everything on ...

A finite mind cannot fully comprehend an infinite reality; a cup cannot contain the sea. This is not a defect of the mind, ...

The final conclusion of the universe is far nearer than one would have thought, but happily it is a very long one. The following quote, which is credited to physicist Heino Falcke, reflects that ...

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Doesn’t seem like much of a brainteaser, does it? Everyone knows the sky darkens at night because the sun sets … or more accurately, because our part of planet Earth rotates away from the sun, and ...

Depending on how you look at it, the universe might not have an "end," after all. This article was originally published at The Conversation. The publication contributed the article to Space.com's ...

If the universe is packed with trillions of stars and galaxies, the night sky should be glowing like the surface of the Sun.

Friedmann accepted this new term but pointed out a radical alternative: the universe did not have to be frozen. He argued that Einstein’s static universe was merely a special case and that the cosmos ...

TimesMachine is an exclusive benefit for home delivery and digital subscribers. About the Archive This is a digitized version of an article from The Times’s print archive, before the start of online ...