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An illustration of our solar system (not to scale). (Image credit: buradaki/iStock/Getty Images Plus) Astronomers have discovered that the s...

“You can journey to the ends of the earth in search of success,” 19th-century Baptist preacher Russell Conwell is said to have proclaimed, “...

New findings from the University of Bonn challenge the assumptions of the standard cosmological model. The faint “afterglow” that fills the ...

Astronomers have discovered a cosmic "ring" that's so enormous, it defies explanation with our best theories of the universe. ...

A recent study proposes that the “Hubble tension,” a discrepancy in measurements of the universe’s expansion rate, can be resolved using the...

Astronomers use the light from distant stars, such as the Helix Nebula seen here, to measure the apparent expansion of the universe. New res...

The universe is not only expanding, but accelerating that expansion, leading most scientists to anticipate it will keep on growing for a ver...

Einstein’s forgotten twisted universe There’s a kind of inevitability about the fact that, if you write a regular newsletter about fundament...

If the multiverse exists, there could be another you somewhere out there, doing exactly what you're doing now. (Image credit: Getty Imag...

This image from the Hubble Space Telescope features the spiral galaxy Markarian 1337, which is roughly 120 million light-years away from Ear...

The modern cosmic picture of our universe’s history begins not with a singularity, the Big Bang,  but rather with a period of cosmic inflati...

Supermassive black holes tend to sit, more or less stationary, at the centers of galaxies. But not all of these awesome cosmic objects stay...

Thousands of medieval Islamic tombs in eastern Sudan were arranged in hard-to-detect patterns, with sacred "parent" tombs hosting ...