It’s always amazing, and more than a little humbling, when the universe reminds us that our “common sense” is provincial, ...

The human brain and universe display similar complexity, with roughly 86 billion neurons compared to 100 billion stars per ...

For humans, the most important star in the universe is our Sun. The second-most important star is nestled inside the Andromeda galaxy. Don't go looking for it -- the flickering star is 2.2 million ...

"We thought they were basically all going to be fried because the entire universe turned into a vat of boiling oil." Astronomers have discovered a collection of tiny galaxies located roughly 3 million ...