On human timescales, the universe may as well be eternal. It’ll be here long after our species and our planet are gone, but ...

The story begins with the black hole information paradox. According to relativity, anything that falls into a black hole is ...

The Universe still holds many mysteries, and among the most intriguing are these invisible components known as dark matter and dark energy. For decades, astronomers have estimated that ...

A new study from David Kipping attempts to explain why we are located around a yellow star, and so early in the universe.

When discussing the scale of the universe, we’re immediately faced with an intriguing question: are we tiny beings, or is the ...

The interactive online map, created using data from NASA's James Webb Space Telescope, details some 800,000 galaxies across a vast cosmic distance. Scrolling and zooming in can take users some 13.5 ...

COSMOS-Web was the largest General Observer program selected by the James Webb Space Telescope for Cycle 1. The team, led by RIT Associate Professor Jeyhan Kartaltepe, has publicly released its full ...

What if the universe remembers? A bold new framework proposes that spacetime acts as a quantum memory. For over a hundred ...

Down on humanity lately? Consider the following fact, which should fill you with pride for your species. Little more than a century ago, humans believed that our universe consisted solely of the Milky ...

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