It’s always amazing, and more than a little humbling, when the universe reminds us that our “common sense” is provincial, ...

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Across the galaxy, astronomers now see that planetary systems fall into four broad classes, and our own solar system, part of the rare Ordered group, is only one of them. At the same time, discoveries ...

Astronomers analyzing Sloan Digital Sky Survey data stumbled onto something they weren’t expecting: a structure stretching ...

New research suggests holographic dark energy could stop the universe's expansion. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Researchers ...

Stephen has degrees in science (Physics major) and arts (English Literature and the History and Philosophy of Science), as well as a Graduate Diploma in Science Communication. Stephen has degrees in ...

Astronomers have discovered what may be the brightest object in the universe, a quasar with a black hole at its heart growing so fast that it swallows the equivalent of a sun a day. The ...

Scientists on Wednesday announced the discovery of the oldest black hole ever seen, a 13-billion-year-old object that's actually "eating" its host galaxy to death. Astronomers made the discovery with ...

The atypical structure of the radium monofluoride molecule allows physicists to search for answers to some of the universe’s biggest questions.