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Science has come a long way since Mary Shelley penned “Frankenstein.” But we still grapple with the same questions.

A new study proposes that Hawking radiation could be used to find dark matter in places like primordial black holes.

How scientists found out that we live in a cosmic aquarium.

Besides offering an incredibly cool way to get stuff into space, SpinLaunch promises to reduce the cost of a launch by 20-fold.

Cosmologists are largely still in the dark about the forces that drive the Universe.

Physicists have yet to pinpoint the hypothetical matter that keeps galaxies from flying apart. Now they have a new focus.

Our understanding always will remain incomplete.

Galactic archaeology has uncovered a spectacular find: the Milky Way already existed more than 13 billion years ago.

From the Big Bang to dark energy, knowledge of the cosmos has sped up in the past century — but big questions linger.

At 35 light-years away, it’s also the 2nd coolest, 2nd widest planet ever found. Despite discovering more than 4000 exoplanets, most remain obscure. Although more than 4,000 confirmed exoplanets are known, […]

A newly discovered “ultrahot Jupiter” has the shortest orbit of any known gas giant.

The electromagnetic force can be attractive, repulsive, or “bendy,” but is always mediated by the photon. How does one particle do it all?

Gravitational waves are the last signatures that are emitted by merging black holes. What happens when these two phenomena meet in space?

The universe is filled with unlikely events, but is also full of ways to fool ourselves.

If you think of the Big Bang as an explosion, we can trace it back to a single point-of-origin. But what if it happened everywhere at once?

In 1903, a Vermont doctor bet $50 that he could cross America by car. It took him 63 days, $8,000, and 600 gallons of gas.

A Carrington-magnitude event would kill millions, and cause trillions of dollars in damage. Sadly, it isn’t even the worst-case scenario.

Both made monumental contributions that were far ahead of their time. It’s hard to believe, but the idea that the Universe was dominated not by normal matter but rather by dark […]

Do we still remember what we learned in the 1940s?

We should all pause to appreciate the awe-inspiring beauty of the Universe.

In the 20th century, many options abounded as to our cosmic origins. Today, only the Big Bang survives, thanks to this critical evidence.

Jupiter’s atmosphere is hotter than it should be, and now we know why.

The discovery of ultra-bright, ultra-distant galaxies was JWST’s first big surprise. They didn’t “break the Universe,” and now we know why.

There are so many problems, all across planet Earth, that harm and threaten humanity. Why invest in researching the Universe?

For the past 150+ years, the big ones have all missed us. But at some point, our good luck will run out.

From astrobiology to geology, a Moon base could serve as a laboratory unlike anything on Earth.

At four million solar masses, the Milky Way’s supermassive black hole is quite small for a galaxy its size. Did we lose the original?

The acceptance of our cosmic loneliness and the rarity of our planet is a wakeup call.

Shooting star or piece of space dust?

The far side of the Moon is incredibly different from the Earth-facing side. 63 years later, we know why the Moon’s faces are not alike.