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Out of the limelight, theoretical physicists continue to seek a mathematical model that can explain the universe's particles and forces.

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Distant, ancient galaxies are giving scientists more hints that a mysterious force called dark energy may not be what they ...

The Friday before this one, I had a fantastic opportunity to serve as resident astronomer for the evening at Leonardo’s Children’s Museum’s Milky Way Mixer.

Now, a new study published Nov. 11 in Nature Astronomy has revisited the Voyager 2 data and discovered that Uranus was ...

Scientists announced Thursday that they had taken the first zoomed-in image of a dying star beyond our galaxy. The star is ...

A pride of lions had surrounded a buffalo in the Ruaha National Park in Tanzania and the battle seemed decided. But then the ...

Astronomers have taken the first close-up image of a star beyond our galaxy, and it’s a “monster star” surrounded by a cocoon ...

Sixteenth century Danish astronomer Tycho Brahe laid the framework for modern cosmology without ever using a telescope.

For the first time, astronomers have captured a close-up image of a dying star beyond our Milky Way. This milestone, achieved by the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope Interferometer ...

The copy of "Harmonia Macrocosmica" dates back to the 17th century and includes ancient theories of the universe ...