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New research presented at the Royal Astronomical Society's National Astronomy Meeting (NAM) in Durham suggests a ...
Tony Tyson’s cameras revealed the universe’s dark contents. Now, with the Rubin Observatory’s 3.2-billion-pixel camera, he’s ...
Researchers analyze fossilized sounds of the Big Bang in space, and the distortions present in it indicate that the Milky Way ...
Just the third-ever confirmed interstellar object has been detected in our solar system. Here's what we know. (Spoiler: It's ...
Astronomers claim to have found new evidence supporting a controversial observation that our galaxy is residing in an unusually sparse region in space. If it's correct, it could rewrite cosmology.
Some faint stars may not burn with fusion but with dark matter itself. These "dark dwarfs" could be the long-awaited clue to ...
The Center, which will allow for better understanding of the theories of the universe, is a collaborative research initiative between the Max Planck Society for the Advancement of Science (MPG) in ...
According to a provocative new study, that might just be our cosmic address. This idea is meant to solve one of the biggest ...
Dark matter is one of Nature’s most confounding mysteries. It keeps particle physicists up at night and cosmologists glued to their supercomputer simulations. We know it’s real because its mass ...
Battle of the Big Bang provides an entertaining update on the collective obsessions and controlled schizophrenias in ...
Earth and our entire Milky Way galaxy may sit inside a mysterious giant hole which makes the cosmos expand faster here than in neighboring regions of the universe, astronomers say.
Celestial objects known as dark dwarfs may be hiding at the center of our galaxy and could offer key clues to uncover the ...