What's at the Edge of the Universe?
It is a routine emotion in 2019 to urgently wish, four or five times in a day, to be launched not simply into space but…
It is a routine emotion in 2019 to urgently wish, four or five times in a day, to be launched not simply into space but…
A newly approved NASA mission, called SPHEREx, will use a space-based observatory to study the early conditions of the…
While inspecting a known globular cluster, a team of astronomers began to notice that some of its stars didn’t seem to…
Canadian scientists have detected 13 new fast radio bursts, those mysterious, split-second, high-energy pulses that…
An important discrepancy in measurements of the universe’s acceleration has theorists wondering whether we’ve gotten…
A tiny star located about 1,590 light-years from Earth could be as old as 13.53 billion years, making it one of the…
In what would be somewhat of a revelation had the late theoretical physicist and cosmologist Stephen Hawking not been…
The astronomers behind a universe-mapping satellite have released the project’s final set of processed data. What you…
To help us grok the immensity of the cosmos, the European Space Agency has released a remarkable image of space in…
If you think we have problems now, just wait a few billion years, when the accelerating expansion of the Universe…
Supermassive black holes at the centers of galaxies can get absurdly huge, sometimes reaching masses billions of times…
Stephen Hawking may have passed away in March, but his final work has now been published in a scientific journal.
You might think you have gravity pretty well figured out. If you drop a ball out of a window, a short time later it…
There are few easier ways to get people to read your website than to scare them. That’s how we ended up with the media…
When you look up into the night sky, you see lots of stars—but all of them are members of our own Milky Way galaxy.…
From what scientists have gathered, galaxies are nearly synonymous with dark matter. They seem to be mostly dark matter…
This past June, 500 pounds of a specially fabricated crystal buried in an Italian mountain seemed to glow just a little…
Less than two weeks before his death on March 14, beloved cosmologist Stephen Hawking put the final touches on a…
Stephen Hawking, renowned theoretical physicist and one of the brightest scientific minds of the last half century, died…
It would be silly to think that scientists and astronomers have spotted all of the different kinds of weird things that…
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