Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: Mathematical evidence indicates that our universe is flat, but it could be infinitely big, as well. You can figure out if an object is flat with a ...
Astronomers have discovered a surprisingly "pristine" red giant with the lowest concentration of heavy elements ever seen in ...
Massive stars do not live long. There are several candidates for the biggest star in the universe. One of them, VY Canis Majoris, is over 1,500 times the width of the sun. If it were placed in our ...
A new emulator is tackling the near-impossible task of mapping the universe's large-scale structure without sacrificing intricate details.
According to data from the Hubble and James Webb Space Telescopes, the origins of the free-flying photons in the early cosmic ...
Everything we see around us, from the ground beneath our feet to the most remote galaxies, is made of matter. For scientists, that has long posed a problem: According to physicists’ best current ...
Scientists from NASA and Chalmers University have discovered that incompatible substances can mix on Titan’s icy surface, ...
In 1992, three physicists began an argument about how many numbers we need to fully describe the universe. Their surprisingly ...