From Charli XCX's cigarette-filled Brat tour to Sabrina Carpenter using a fork as a cigarette holder in a music video, the all-too-familiar white sticks have snuck their way back into pop culture.

The Vela explosion stands out as the most dramatic example, occurring when our planet was emerging from the last ice age around 13,000 years ago.

It’s a mid-April Thursday in the fantastic realm known as “Chicago,” hours before Critical Role’s live show at the Wintrust Arena, when Sam Riegel, the class clown of an already frequently silly bunch ...

A near-complete census of our interstellar neighborhood hopes to answer how stars, brown dwarfs and rogue planets form ...

Ancient supernovas may have blasted Earth with powerful radiation, causing dramatic changes in our climate, and could do so ...

Dark matter affects how stars move within galaxies, how galaxies build up over time, and how everything in the universe is held together—but no existing tool has directly detected it. While dark ...

I think the best metaphor for this conversation is a phenomenon called an event horizon. We’re going to have to talk about ...

Surveying nearby galaxies in the process of merging with other galaxies, astronomers have identified massive, dense star ...

By using light to emulate the structure of space-time, researchers can better understand black holes – and the exotic objects ...

A computer simulation shows how two neutron stars of unequal mass merge, form a black hole and spit out a jet of high energy matter.

The sale begins July 15 and also includes gems from the “Star Wars” galaxy and a blue velvet suit Mike Myers wore as Austin ...