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Astronomers say we may live at the center of a cosmic void 2 billion light-years wide that defies the laws of cosmology
If this gigantic cosmic void does exist, it could help astronomers solve one of the greatest myster…
Jessica Orwig,Ellyn Lapointe
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NASA patented a faster, cheaper route to the moon. The first spacecraft to use it could make Nobel Prize-winning discoveries about the universe.
NASA's patenting a new route to lunar orbit assures that the path will remain open to any spacecraf…
Dave Mosher
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The universe is expanding faster than scientists thought, a study confirms - a 'crisis in cosmology' that could require a 'new physics'
They studied the quasars using a process called gravitational lensing, which measures the way light…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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A 'cosmic glitch' in the universe is forcing astronomers to rethink Einstein's theory of relativity
Scientists have found evidence that Einstein's general theory of relativity doesn't quite work in t…
Ellyn Lapointe
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The largest map of the cosmos hints that dark energy is changing. It could prove Einstein wrong and upend a pillar of modern physics.
Astronomers have made the largest 3-D map of our universe and it could change the way we understand…
Jessica Orwig,Morgan McFall-J…
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Scientists accidentally discovered a giant ring-shaped cosmic megastructure that challenges our understanding of the Universe
Scientists discovered the Big Ring, a cosmic structure so large it challenges our understanding of …
Alia Shoaib
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NASA's Webb Space Telescope discovered 3 rare galaxies that can help astronomers study the cosmic dark ages
NASA's James Webb Space Telescope spotted three galaxies forming when the universe was about only 4…
Lloyd Lee,Jessica Orwig
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NASA's James Webb telescope spotted a strange 13 billion-year-old galaxy that shouldn't exist
The galaxy could re-write what we know about how dark matter shaped the early universe.
Marianne Guenot
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Scientists think they've finally solved the decades-long mystery of why our Milky Way galaxy is so rare
Spiral galaxies like the Milky Way are surprisingly rare, and astronomers have wondered why for yea…
Sonam Sheth
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NASA's James Webb telescope discovers the earliest strand of a mysterious 'cosmic web' that links galaxies
The James Webb Space Telescope spotted a long, narrow filament of ten galaxies that existed 830 mil…
Marianne Guenot
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Chunks of an alien world could be hidden deep within our planet, say scientists
A supercomputer simulation has provided new evidence that continent-sized chunks of Theia, which he…
Marianne Guenot
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An 'ultramassive' black hole has been discovered that's 33 billion times the mass of the sun
Scientists at Durham University in the UK used the way gravity bends light at great distances to pi…
Marianne Guenot
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The unsung warriors of 'The Price Is Right'
How the models known as "Barker's Beauties" brought down the legendary host of "The Price Is Right"…
David Kushner
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A French physicist posted a photo he claimed was from the James Webb Space Telescope, praising the 'level of detail' — it turned out to be a slice of chorizo
Etienne Klein posted a photo of chorizo sausage on his Twitter, joking that it was an image from th…
Katherine Tangalakis-Lippert
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NASA awards SpaceX a $255 million contract to launch the next space telescope, which will study dark energy and exoplanets
NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope will launch on SpaceX's Falcon Heavy rocket to observe dar…
Kate Duffy
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My final, unexpected conversation with Cormac McCarthy
It'd been years since we'd spoken. Then, not long before he died, the acclaimed and elusive author …
David Kushner
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Black holes could be making the universe expand using cores of pure dark energy
Two scientists are suggesting that Einstein’s equations were not being used correctly all this tim…
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A Japanese supercomputer is on a mission to find out how our universe went from nothing to everything in less than a microsecond
Its job is to find out how the universe went from nothing to exploding to 1 trillion, trillion t…
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A black hole warped space-time so much that astronomers saw flashes of light from its far side
Albert Einstein predicted that black holes warp space-time, and astronomers just saw the proof - fl…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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The Milky Way is recycling its gases to form a clumpy halo
A halo is a large region filled with hot gas that surrounds a galaxy, also known as a "circumgal…