A new breakthrough in cosmic mapping has unveiled the structure of a colossal filament, part of the vast cosmic web that connects galaxies. Dark matter and gas shape these filaments, but their faint ...

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Astronomers analyzing archived NASA data have stumbled upon a cosmic event unlike anything seen before—a brief but intense ...

Scientists observed constant flares from the Milky Way's black hole, revealing unpredictable and intense activity.

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Nearly half a century ago, physicists proposed that the universe might be trapped in a metastable state known as a false vacuum. This state appears stable but could, over immense timescales, ...

There is a new exhibit at the University of Arizona Flandrau Science Center and Planetarium: Universe of Science. It features ...

Non-mixing layers of water and hydrocarbons thousands of miles deep could explain the icy planets’ strange magnetic fields.

Experts emphasize that the cosmic microwave background is shaped by everything it encounters on its journey, including ...

(THE CONVERSATION) If you want to know what happened in the earliest years of the universe, you are going to need a very big, very specialized telescope. Much to the joy of astronomers and space fans ...

The team announced its “ultrahigh energy” neutrino on Wednesday, in a paper published in the journal Nature. The finding ...

Using an observatory under construction deep beneath the Mediterranean Sea near Sicily, scientists have detected a ghostly ...