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Scientists Mapped 47 Million Galaxies and Found Evidence the Universe May Not Be Uniform After All

Researchers Create Room-Temperature Laser Network That Synchronizes Into One Powerful Light Source

Scientists Create Programmable Virtual Metasurfaces That Can Do What Traditional Optics Cannot

Mysterious Holes in 400-Year-Old Goose Skulls Reveal Europe’s Earliest Known Crested Geese

Human Evolution Wasn’t a Steady Climb: Study Finds Biggest Body Size Jump Happened 2 Million Years Ago

Ancient Proteins From Homo naledi Teeth Reveal Possible All-Female Burial Chamber

Bird Brains May Explain Why Some Birds Lay Eggs Larger Than Dinosaur Eggs, Study Finds

What Is a Dwarf Galaxy? The Small, Satellite Neighborhoods of Our Own

What Is a Globular Cluster? The Ancient, Dense Cities of Millions of Stars

What Is a Wolf-Rayet Star? The Rare Giants That Burn Out Fast

What Is a Galaxy Cluster? The Massive Social Networks of the Cosmos

What Is the Multiverse Theory? Are There Infinite Versions of Reality?

What Is the Zodiac? The Ancient Connection Between Stars and Seasons

What Is the Future of the Universe? The Big Freeze vs. The Big Rip

What Is Space Weather? Why Solar Activity Matters for Earth’s Power Grid

What Is the Anthropic Principle? Why the Universe Seems Fine-Tuned for Us

What Is Panspermia? The Theory That Life on Earth Came from Space

What Is the Aurora Borealis? The Science Behind the Dancing Northern Lights

What Is a Light Year? Why Distance in Space Defies Human Scale in the Sky

What Is the James Webb Space Telescope? The Most Powerful Eye in the Sky

What Is Space Debris? The Growing Problem of Junk in Orbit

What Is the Kardashev Scale? How We Might Rank Future Civilizations

What Is the Fermi Paradox? If Life Is Everywhere, Where Is Everybody?

What Is the Big Bang? The Theoretical Origin of Our Reality

What Is Dark Flow? The Mysterious Motion of Galaxy Clusters

What Is the Information Paradox? The Mystery of What Happens to Matter in a Black Hole

What Is Quantum Gravity? The Search for the Holy Grail of Physics

What Is a Gamma-Ray Burst? The Most Intense Energy Releases Since the Big Bang

What Is the Schwarzschild Radius? Determining the Size of a Black Hole

What Is Frame Dragging? How Massive Objects Twist Spacetime