To explore this long-standing mystery, an international team of scientists formed a group known as the Collaboration for ...

NASA's SPHEREx telescope unveiled its first full-sky map of the universe, combining more than 100 infrared observations into ...

Somehow, even without silicon, this star was surrounded by dust. The dust grains were made almost entirely of iron. This has ...

Physicists are increasingly entertaining a radical possibility: our familiar universe of three dimensions of space and one of ...

Nearly everything in the universe is made of mysterious dark matter and dark energy, yet we can’t see either of them directly ...

Some discoveries emerge softly, with no explosions or satisfying conclusions. Astronomers were watching a distant flare from ...

Some questions about the universe can quickly stray away from physics and into the realms of philosophy. What was before the Big Bang? Why is there something and not nothing? Happily some of the ...

A team of scientists thinks the answer is "yes." When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. The universe could be teaching itself how to ...

Studies suggest that the universe's expansion is decelerating — but what could that mean for the future of the cosmos?

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