At the heart of our own galaxy, there is a dense thicket of stars with a supermassive black hole at the very center. NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope will provide the deepest-ever view of this ...

Free educational YouTube channel delivers half a million hours of learning to children worldwide We wanted to create ...

Developed by a Brooklyn software engineer, the addictive puzzle known as Wordle requires players to guess a five-letter word.

Elon Musk makes first Davos appearance, joins Larry on stage and jokes about aliens, peace deals, and pension funds.

Astronomers have long searched for life within a rather narrow ring around a star, the “habitable zone,” where a planet should be neither too hot nor ...

For subscribers to The New York Times who are as interested in solving Wordle or filling in the crossword puzzle as in reading the latest political or business news, Wednesday is a big day. Ancillary ...

The Times' popular Games unit is debuting Crossplay, a Scrabble-like electronic feature that represents its first designed ...

A strange world just 47 light-years from Earth is rewriting what scientists thought they knew about alien planets. Hidden beneath thick, light-blocking haze, it holds a mix of gases that defies every ...

The giant planets weren't always where we find them today. Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune formed in a more compact configuration and later underwent a violent reshuffling that scattered them to ...

This image presents a grid of color-enhanced astronomical observations, each depicting a circumstellar disc—structures of dust and gas surrounding stars. Every square in the grid represents a ...