It’s the ultimate game of find a needle in the haystack. One NASA scientist is betting on AI to help expedite the search ...

I got a piece of the answer from the world's largest laser, the National Ignition ... element of the universe: It directly, regularly, and dramatically interacts with our senses.

The visible universe—including Earth ... the effects of dark matter could be explained by fundamentally modifying our theories of gravity. According to such ideas, there are multiple forms ...

This story appears in the August 2010 issue of National Geographic magazine. We sink into Stargate, sweeping the void with our dive lights ... study of life in the universe.

What is causing these massive, mysterious explosions in space? What is causing these massive, mysterious explosions in space? This black hole was formed when the universe was a toddler This black ...

Estimating how long white dwarfs have been cooling can help astronomers learn much about the age of the universe. Ancient white dwarf stars shine in the Milky Way galaxy. Stars like our sun fuse ...

a little-known but ubiquitous force that works against gravity and contributes to the ongoing expansion of the universe. Hubble also measures the atmospheres of planets outside our own solar ...

With next-generation telescopes, tiny space probes, and more, scientists aim to search for life beyond our solar system ... in the March 2019 issue of National Geographic magazine.

This story appears in the August 2018 issue of National Geographic ... and we commence our first REM session, the most elaborate and complex instrument known in the universe is free to do what ...

Thus Corina becomes one galaxy in an expanding universe ... and hold our behavior in check. "The executive brain doesn't hit adult levels until the age of 25," says Jay Giedd of the National ...

Neutron stars can have a resounding impact around the universe. Scientists recently announced ... that grew to four to eight times the size of our own sun before exploding in catastrophic supernovae.

Packing all of that bulk—many times the mass of our own sun—into such a tiny point ... darkness may have swirled to life soon after the universe formed with the big bang, some 13.7 billion ...