The Copernican Principle, named in honor of Nicolaus Copernicus (who proposed the heliocentric model of the Universe), states ...

Since time immortal, humans have shared stories of beings coming down from the heavens. A new book explores our fascination ...

Although the first detection of gravitational waves in 2015 gets a lot of press, the detection of GW170817—the first binary neutron star collision—confirms how important gravitational waves likely are ...

As we bring more human consciousness to space, we'll bring with it our human religions while finding new names for new types ...