In 1867, Lord Kelvin imagined atoms as knots in the aether. The idea was soon disproven. Atoms turned out to be something ...

The story begins with the black hole information paradox. According to relativity, anything that falls into a black hole is ...

For centuries, we’ve believed gravity holds the universe together. But what if that’s the biggest misunderstanding in science ...

In fact, the Euclid Consortium, the international group managing the European Space Agency's Euclid space telescope, just ...

Below the waves of the Mediterranean, Europe's KM3NeT neutrino telescope is on a cosmic hunt. Towering strings of sensors ...

Researchers have unveiled a new model for the universe’s birth that replaces cosmic inflation with gravitational waves as the ...

Using the James Webb Space Telescope, scientists have charted billions of years of galactic evolution, and found that ...

It’s a cosmic puzzle piece that doesn’t seem to belong to any known set. We all know the Moon has a side that always faces away from us, but it turns out that far side might be hiding something ...

Neutrinos are tiny particles that can pass through everything, rarely interacting with matter. They are the universe's most ...

Astronomers continue to expand humanity’s cosmic horizons. NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has confirmed and built upon the Hubble Space Telescope’s groundbreaking discovery of Earendel, the ...

In other words, the universe does not just evolve. It remembers. This article was originally published at The Conversation. The publication contributed the article to Space.com's Expert Voices: Op-Ed ...

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