13.8 Billion Years, Compressed Into a Scroll
Scroll through 13.8 billion years of cosmic history in 3D. From the Big Bang to the death of our Sun — nine phases of the...
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Most of the Universe Is Missing — We Still Can't Find It
Image: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, CXC Eighty-five percent of all the matter in the universe is something we have never seen, never touched, never caught...
The Universe Is Expanding at Two Different Speeds — And Both Are Right
Image: ESA and the Planck Collaboration Two teams of physicists have spent more than a decade measuring the same number. They are using the best...
Something Is Pushing the Universe Apart — We Don't Know What
Image: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI Something is pushing the universe apart. Not slowly, not gently, and not in the way anyone expected. The space between...
Physics Says White Holes Must Exist — We Just Haven't Found One
Run a black hole backward and physics says a white hole emerges. Carlo Rovelli argues they are real — and quantum gravity demands them.
We Should Hope Mars Is Completely Dead — Here's Why
If Mars once had life, it would be the worst news in human history. The Great Filter explains why — and why a dead Mars...
87 Ghost Rivers Are Flowing Through the Milky Way
87 streams of stars torn from ancient galaxies thread through the Milky Way. They are fossil rivers — evidence of collisions billions of years old.
A Third Galaxy Without Dark Matter Shouldn't Be Possible
A third galaxy has been confirmed with almost no dark matter. NGC 1052-DF9 challenges everything we thought we knew about galaxy formation.
Farthest Galaxy MoM-z14: JWST's Record at Redshift 14.4
MoM-z14 formed 290 million years after the Big Bang. JWST found it at redshift 14.4 — the farthest object ever observed by humanity.