From a 98-pound weakling who becomes a globetrotting force for freedom to a shy high school student transformed by a freak spider bite into a wall-crawling phenom, Marvel Comics has crafted some of ...

Nobel laureate Dr. George Smoot, who conducted groundbreaking research into the origins of the universe during a long career at the University of California, Berkeley, and the Lawrence Berkeley ...

Lately, writer Scott Snyder and his collaborators have been fleshing out the origin and nature of Absolute Joker. Read on for ...

A black hole unlike any seen before has been spotted in the early universe. It’s huge and appears to be essentially on its own, with few stars circling it. The object, which may represent a whole new ...

In a study published in the journal Classical and Quantum Gravity, Dr. Richard Lieu, a physics professor at The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH), which is a part of The University of Alabama ...

Sixty percent of the oldest known galaxies seem to be rotating clockwise an asymmetry so extreme that one scientist described “any person looking at the image can see it.” The result, based on 263 ...

Findings from a new study into the cosmic "afterglow" may rewrite the history of the universe, according to researchers. This afterglow—the "cosmic microwave background" (CMB), the relic radiation ...