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From the Big Bang to black holes, singularities are hard to avoid. The math definitely predicts them, but are they truly, physically real?
The meaning of the cryptic text has eluded scholars for centuries. Their latest efforts include computational analyses seeking new insights into the medieval enigma.
In terms of the planets we’ve discovered, super-Earths are by far the most common. What does that mean for the Universe?
An effect called the “urban heat island” means that temperatures are often 10 degrees higher in cities, according to NASA.
In the largest star-forming region close to Earth, JWST found hundreds of planetary-mass objects. How do these free-floating planets form?
Due to a crust of carbon, the absence of oxygen, and constant bombardment from meteorites, the planet Mercury may be littered with diamonds.
When Cameroon’s Lakes Monoun and Nyos exploded, they released clouds of carbon dioxide that suffocated everything in its wake.
Parents want the best for their kids, but resilience helps children better cope with life’s unavoidable challenges.
The discovery calls into question the few things scientists know about these powerful astronomical phenomena.
The right questions are those sparked from the joy of discovery.
All of the matter and radiation we measure today originated in a hot Big Bang long ago. The Universe was never empty, not even before that.
Some fascinating observations of K2-18b have come along with horrendous, speculative communications. There’s no evidence for oceans or life.
On New Year’s Eve 1899, the captain of this Pacific steamliner sailed into history. Or did he?
After decades of development, whether NASA’s Webb succeeds or fails all comes down to five critical milestones that are only days away.
Quantum entanglement may remain spooky, but it has a very practical side.
Tiny fluctuations in old Kepler data reveals four runaway planets that are reminiscent of Earth.
Break into London Zoo? Illegal, but it would improve the London Circle Walk
The new record-holder opens up a literal Universe full of possibilities. Someday, even our own Sun will eventually run out of hydrogen fuel in its core, bringing a tremendous set […]
We’ve already observed three cases where it’s happened. When you look at an object in space, it’s pretty easy to tell if it’s a star or a planet. Stars are […]
The world needs a moral defense of progress based in humanism and agency.
If the laws of physics are symmetrical as we think they are, then the Big Bang should have created matter and antimatter in the same amount.
The neutrino is the most ghostly, rarely-interacting particle in all the Standard Model. How well can we truly make “beams” out of them?
Jains believe that karma weighs the soul down. This can be overcome through extreme asceticism, in which one slowly withdraws from life.
New research finds that dinosaurs were already adapted to living in cold climates before the end-Triassic mass extinction. But how?
Archaeologists turn to other scientific fields to fill in the picture of how victims lived and why they died.
This year’s Nobel Peace Prize ceremony sends yet another strong message to Russian president Vladimir Putin.
The conservation of energy is one of the most fundamental laws governing our reality. But in the expanding Universe, that’s just not true.