Philip K. Dick is one of the most influential and lauded sci-fi writers, with his best works including Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? and Valis.

That’s the subject of astrophysicist and “Cosmos” host Neil deGrasse Tyson’s upcoming lecture at the University of Virginia’s ...

Space dust provides more than just awe-inspiring pictures like the Pillars of Creation. It can provide the necessary materials to build everything from planets to asteroids. But what it actually looks ...

Far from Earth, drifting between the stars, lies a quiet ocean of carbon. Astronomers call it the interstellar medium, a vast realm where simple and complex molecules float through cold clouds of gas ...

Scientists have long held that the universe is expanding at an ever-increasing rate, driven by a mysterious but measurable ...

“The Universe will just get colder and deader from now on,” added Douglas Scott, study author and a cosmologist at the ...

In a new book, NASA astrobiologist Caleb Scharf says the fate of life on Earth may hinge on leaving our planet behind ...

There is physically, absolutely zero way that we will ever know how large the universe is,” says Sara Webb, an astrophysicist at Swinburne University of Technology. Yet what astronomers can measure is ...