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An international research team led by scientists at Waseda University and Tohoku University has discovered an extraordinary ...

Even given a set of possible quantum states for our cosmos, it's impossible for us to determine which one of them is correct ...

On Christmas Day 2021, alongside other astronomers, I watched the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) launch from French Guiana and begin its month-long journey to its destination, 1.5 million ...

New models explain how small black holes in the early universe beat the clock and grew into massive objects within millions ...

In A Nutshell A black hole in the early universe is eating 13 times faster than a classic physics rule says is possible It’s ...

Our own planet represents a tiny fraction of the peculiar phenomena that can be found lurking throughout the cosmos, and every day astronomers turn up new surprises. In this gallery, we take a look at ...

As the Dark Energy Survey (DES) releases its final results, we caught up with two physicists who've been involved in the ...