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Cosmos
The big bang poses a big question: if it was indeed the cataclysm that blasted our universe into existence 13.7 billion years ago, what sparked it? Three researchers at the Perimeter Institute for Th…
You've probably read about how the Universe is expanding , and has been expanding since the beginning of time. Over the course of 13.8 billion years or so, it's stretched from the size of a b…
Destroying a black hole with rockets, shooting lasers at it, smashing planets into it, is not gonna work. Nothing like that would work, more interestingly whatever you throw at it will just make it b…
Astronomers have released a new X-ray/radio composite image of the distant galaxy Pictor A, showing a huge jet of high-energy particles produced by a super-massive black hole. They were also able to…
China aims to build the largest and most powerful machine ever built by mankind, a super-collider twice the size of CERN in an effort to finally understand the universe and its composition. The reign…
We know that our universe has already lived through great number of exciting phases. But new research released overnight shows the universe has long passed its peak and is slowly but surely dying. T…
Nearly fifty years after the first moon landing in 1969, many people still wonder if any of the Apollo landings actually happened at all. The Apollo astronauts who’ve since been asked about their exp…
From galaxies that are 13 billion years old to changing colors of Jupiter’s great spot, we will take a look at seven objects in space that we just can’t explain. (Image: This enhanced image of SN1993…
The term just sounds ominous. And though it makes up an estimated 85% of the total mass of the Universe, it has remained a mystery to physicists for 80 years. It outweighs ordinary matter, which con…
Have you ever seen a 9-gigapixel map of the Milky Way Galaxy? The jaw-dropping image contains around 84 million stars and it’s unlike anything I’ve ever seen. The original image has 24.6 gigabytes. H…
Astronomers have struggled to assemble a complete theory of the origin of planets that explains how the initial dust develops into planetary systems. A French-UK-Australian team now think they have t…
“ Your theory is crazy, but it's not crazy enough to be true, ” said the great Danish physicist Niels Bohr. Enter Sir Roger Penrose. Correlated noise in the two LIGO gravitational-wave detectors …
Matter that falls into a black hole is gone forever, right? Well not quite, says Stephen Hawking. Stephen Hawking told this at a public lecture in Stockholm , Sweden, just yesterday. He also said “If…
Space is steeped in mystery, and that very thought alone has made scientists determined to break through some of the biggest questions of all. Yet finding solutions to some only make more what-ifs ar…
There is a massive black hole with millions of times more mass than our sun is plunging towards Earth and will one day annihilate life as we know it. This particular black hole is coming towards us a…
You may think it’s quite ludicrous to even contemplate that the Moon could be harbouring as many as 250 million citizens , but it’s not. Although this may not be true, those who have looked into it k…
By pushing the Hubble Space Telescope to its extreme limits astronomers have crushed the cosmic distance record by calculating the distance to the most distant galaxy ever seen in the Cosmos . This g…