Star Trek's cultural impact has spurred its fair share of parodies, both in movies and television. We think these five are ...

Dark matter is a mysterious substance that glues galaxies together. This map from the James Webb Space Telescope could help ...

Visiting the Mirror Universe is a decades-old 'Star Trek' tradition that 'Starfleet Academy' would be foolish to ignore. Here ...

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Wormholes are often imagined as tunnels through space or time—shortcuts across the universe. But this image rests on a ...

Mathematical quirks of our universe have led some cosmologists to wonder whether the cosmos was actually born in a black hole. Parallels in the physics of the universe and that of black holes have led ...

In the season 2 episode "Mirror, Mirror," Star Trek perfected the alternate universe trope long before Hollywood's multiverse obsession.

Using NASA's James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers have spotted two rare kinds of dust in the dwarf galaxy Sextans A, one of the most chemically primitive galaxies near the Milky Way. The finding of ...

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