The discovery is just the latest to come from the asteroid sample, which dates back to the dawn of the solar system.

For some, doing math in school was the worst punishment they could think of. For others, it was like snapping their fingers.

When a cell divides, it performs a feat of microscopic choreography—duplicating its DNA and depositing it into two new cells. The spindle is the machinery behind that process: It latches onto ...

So cosmologists feel confident in modelling the universe using the “maximally symmetric” description of space-time in Einstein’s theory of general relativity. This symmetric vision for the universe, ...