A common height that seems normal in our human-scale world. Yet, when we compare it to the smallest and largest conceivable ...

An artist's concept of multiple types of subatomic particles. Forget about turtles; for all practical purposes, it’s really particles all the way down. Consider the seemingly simple matter of their ...

Scientists led by a team from the University of Chicago recently released a study that mapped some of the largest known ...

There are several candidates for the biggest star in the universe. One of them, VY Canis Majoris, is over 1,500 times the width of the sun. If it were placed in our solar system, it would stretch to ...

"We've been waiting to reach this point for a long time." Using the largest catalog of exploding white dwarf vampire stars ever gathered has provided further evidence that dark energy, the mysterious ...

MENLO PARK, Calif. (KGO) -- Amazing images of the universe were unveiled Monday, taken by the world's largest space camera built here in the Bay Area. That 6,000-pound camera was built at SLAC ...