Unusual stellar remnants suggest the Milky Way might have eaten a galaxy called Loki billions of years ago, according to new ...

Astronomers have named it Loki, after the Norse trickster god. The discovery, if confirmed, could fundamentally reshape what ...

‘80s shonen manga aren't just nostalgic, they still hold up today because of how confidently they established their ...

A sweeping mythological comparison of dragons across world cultures — from China's benevolent rain-bringers and Norse ...

David H. DeVorkin is emeritus senior curator in the history of astronomy and the space sciences at the National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC. What is the Universe?

The conclusion of DESI's first survey marks an important milestone for cosmology, which finds itself in a bind for the best reasons. Reading time 5 minutes Last week, the Dark Energy Spectroscopy ...

Cosmology is a research area in astrophysics that investigates the large-scale properties, origin, composition, and dynamical evolution of the Universe as a whole. It integrates general relativity, ...

At the tip of the Great Northern Peninsula of the island of Newfoundland, the remains of an 11th-century Viking settlement are evidence of the first European presence in North America. The excavated ...

This heathen god of the elements has a now-iconic identity. But how much of it is modern invention – and how much goes way back? ’Thor Chasing the Dwarfs’, 1878. Depictions of the Scandinavian god ...

While Freya, a.k.a. Freyja, Freja, Fröja or Frøya, is most known as the goddess of love, she also oversaw fertility, battle, and death. The mythology related to her emphasizes her role in all things ...