Study says gravity and Higgs boson interacted to save the universe

One second after the Big Bang, the Higgs boson should have caused a Big Crunch, collapsing the universe to nothing. But gravity saved the day.

Ten things you might not know about space

Ten oddities and misconceptions about space that you may -- or may not -- have heard before.

Thud of Philae landing on comet

Take 2 seconds to listen to a sound made 311 million miles away.

Is this exotic object an ejected black hole or a huge star?

Is SDSS1133 a supermassive black hole ejected from its home galaxy, or the remains of a massive star that exploded as a supernova? Astronomers aren't sure.

Subaru Telescope detects sudden appearance of 7 galaxies in early universe

Japanese astronomers probing deeply back into our universe's early history have found 7 galaxies at a time when the universe was only 700 million years old.

Video: Could humans actually live on planet Mars?

Could we survive on Mars? The AsapSCIENCE guys address the question.

Men and women adapt differently to spaceflight

A study looks at differences in the ways that men and women's bodies react to time spent in space.

Bizarre black hole alignments over billions of light-years

The black holes are central to quasars in the early universe. Researchers say the probability that their aligned spin is the result of chance is less than 1%.

Asteroid Vesta now has its own geologic maps

Vesta is revealed as a world in space - albeit a little world - in these new maps of its surface. Scientists say the maps of Vesta reveals its history.

Rosetta spots Philae’s bounce across the comet

Never-before-seen images of a bouncy comet landing! Shows Philae lander attempting to touch down in the weak gravity field of Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko.