There are an estimated two trillion galaxies within the observable Universe. Most are already unreachable, and the situation only gets worse.
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After years of analysis, the Event Horizon Telescope team has finally revealed what the Milky Way’s central black hole looks like.
For the cosmos, it’s all too easy being green. Stars come in a wide variety of colors, but never green. Stars form in a wide variety of sizes, colors and masses, […]
Learning styles are supposed to help learners take ownership of their education, but research doesn’t back up this well-intentioned myth.
Planets are either rocky, like Earth, or gas-rich, like Neptune, with no in-between. What are the different types of planets that exist in the Universe? If all you could see […]
The bizarre discovery could pave the way for advances in regenerative medicine for humans.
More energy means more potential for discovery, but we’re topped out. If your goal is to discover something completely novel, you have to look in a way that no one else […]
Most of us will never run a 4 minute mile. But on a bicycle, almost anyone can do it. As human beings, we often take for granted how our bodies work. […]
Think you can hide your feelings pretty easily?
Migrating our planet to a safer orbit might be the only way to preserve Earth after all the ice melts.
With launch, deployment, calibration, and science operations about to commence, here are 10 facts that are absolutely true.
If you think it’s just three quarks held together by gluons, you’ll want to read this. At a fundamental level, the Universe is composed of indivisible particles. From macroscopic scales down […]
When you mix science with speculation, you get speculation. But the underlying science is still real. Whenever you hear the phrase, “it’s just a theory,” it should trigger alarm bells in […]
If the electromagnetic and weak forces unify to make the electroweak force, maybe, at even higher energies, something even greater happens?
Despite all that we’ve learned about the Universe, there remain unanswered, and possibly unanswerable, questions. Could “God” be the answer?
Find out the truth for yourself. If this past year has shown us anything, it’s how thoroughly we rely on high-quality expertise. As the COVID-19 pandemic swept the globe, it […]
Out of all the galaxies we know, only a few little ones are missing dark matter. At last, we finally understand why.
We need more and better data to know, but that’s exactly what’s coming. Over the past few decades, a number of important advances have helped revolutionize our picture of the Universe. […]
“It’s kind of like a Fitbit in your skull with tiny wires,” Musk said.
The Baltic nation rolls out an unlikely tourist attraction: 47 weird ice cream flavors.
The majority of the matter in our Universe isn’t made of any of the particles in the Standard Model. Could the axion save the day?
You’re always in control of your breath.
A few years ago, the first dark matter-free galaxies were announced, and then immediately disputed. Now, there are too many to ignore.
Think there are habitable super-Earths out there? Think again. Here in our Solar System, we have two very distinct types of planets: small, terrestrial, rocky worlds, with thin (or no) atmospheres […]
Learn how to practice “self-indifference.”
The Big Theoretical Physics Problem At The Center Of The ‘Muon g-2’ Puzzle In early April, 2021, the experimental physics community announced an enormous victory: they had measured the muon’s magnetic […]
Whatever’s lurking out there, it isn’t all, or even mostly, normal matter. When it comes to the Universe, it’s only natural to wonder what, exactly, it is that makes everything up. […]
The newest record-setting quasar houses an enormous black hole. No one knows how. In every scientific field, we’re always on the lookout for whatever new discovery might reveal what’s currently beyond […]
What speech is harmful, how do we know, and what do we do if we find out?
A new survey, the DESI Legacy Imaging Survey, has found more lenses than all others put together. One of Einstein’s most revolutionary predictions is that mass bends light. During a […]