"First published in Great Britain in 2015 by Profile Books Ltd"--Title-page verso. The story of the discovery and cracking of the genetic code, the thing that ultimately enables a spiraling molecule ...

JWST detected surprisingly bright and large galaxies shortly after the Big Bang. JWST found supermassive black holes much earlier in the universe's history than expected. JWST discovered dust in the ...

From finding the long-sought "God particle," gravitational waves and missing neutrinos from the sun to getting the first real clue for elusive dark energy, here's a look back at the greatest ...

Sandy Irvine seen with the oxygen cylinders that he helped to manage for the 1924 expedition. Photograph by Royal Geographic Society, B. Beetham Last week’s announcement that a boot and partial ...

We’ve managed to discover quite a lot about our Universe from our relatively limited vantage point here on Earth. Many of those discoveries have been worthy of nothing more than an updated entry in ...

Space Week is Oct. 4-10, so here are some of NASA’s latest discoveries and why Edwin Hubble’s history-making photo, taken on this day in 1923, revolutionized astronomy. This image above is from the ...