The universe may be a little darker after a recent discovery has shown that there could be fewer galaxies populating it. A previous measurement by Hubble Space Telescope suggested there were 2 trillion galaxies spread across the universe. Now, the latest research points to only hundreds of billions of galaxies instead. After NASA’s New Horizons…… MORE

The world is on track for a “ghastly future,” an international group of scientists has warned, with accelerating climate change and biodiversity loss threatening the survival of all of the planet’s species unless world leaders face up to the challenge and act urgently. As part of a bleak “prognosis,” a team of 17 leading scientists…… MORE

A hot and rocky exoplanet known as a super-Earth has been discovered orbiting one of the oldest stars in our Milky Way galaxy, according to a new study. The exoplanet, called that because it’s located outside our solar system, is about 50% larger than Earth and has three times the mass — which makes it…… MORE

High school sweethearts who were separated nearly seven decades ago reunited during the coronavirus pandemic and are now married. The love story began 68 years ago, when Fred Paul and Florence Harvey first found each other. The couple met as teenagers in Wandsworth, a small town in Newfoundland and Labrador province, Canada. They spent every…… MORE

Galaxies die when the stars that live in them stop forming. Now, for the first time, astronomers have witnessed this phenomenon in a distant galaxy. Scientists were able to glimpse a galaxy as it ejected almost half of the gas it uses to form stars. They captured this rare observation using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter…… MORE