The public sector has a much larger share of unionized workers than the private sector, but the rights of the civil servants have lagged far behind. Since the 1930s, federal laws have allowed private ...

For a quarter century, cosmologists have treated dark energy as a fixed, featureless pressure that steadily drives galaxies ...

While the 21st century has been bumpy, it has also ushered in monumental scientific and technological breakthroughs that have ...

The familiar script of planetary defence has been torn up. For decades, the globe's foremost space agencies operated under ...

Learn how Hubble is measuring the expansion rate of the Universe in this new explainer from NASA's Goddard Space Flight ...

With construction complete, the telescope will now move into final testing. Following testing, Roman will be packaged and ...

Paul Sutter explores how ancient creation myths and modern cosmology answer the same questions, framing the Big Bang as a scientific creation story rooted in observation and theory ...

Inside the American Museum of Natural History's glass cube, the Frederick Phineas and Sandra Priest Rose Center for Earth and ...

The telescope captured near-infrared light from one of the earliest stars seen to explode in the history of the universe.

"The natural question that comes up is: how many more space telescopes will be affected when all these constellations are ...

JWST uncovers evidence of ancient “monster stars” whose extreme chemistry may explain the origins of early supermassive black ...

The space agency said supernovas typically brighten rapidly over a period of several weeks before they slowly start to dim. This example, however, took months to ...