Tagged: universe

Are we alone? Unfortunately, neither of the answers feel satisfactory. To be alone in this vast universe is a lonely prospect. On the other hand, if we are not alone and there is someone or something more powerful out there, that too is terrifying. As...

NASA is committed to finding life in the universe and new evidence shows that they might be best suited looking at “Goldilocks stars” instead of stars known as red dwarfs. Orange dwarfs, also known as “Goldilocks stars” or K-stars, are more stable than red dwarfs,...

Astronomers have discovered the largest known structure in the universe, a clump of active galactic cores that stretches 4 billion light-years from end to end. The structure is a large quasar group (LQG), a collection of extremely luminous galactic nuclei powered by supermassive central black...

The universe may not be the same in every direction after all. The expansion rate of the universe appears to vary from place to place, a new study reports. This finding, if confirmed, would force astronomers to reassess just how well they understand the cosmos....

NASA’s upcoming James Webb Space Telescope might be able to ferret them out. The first stars in the universe formed even earlier than astronomers had thought, a new study suggests. Researchers probing the early universe found no sign of first-generation stars in galaxies that existed...

Do scientists need to re-examine the basic model of the universe? Using new measurements of cosmic distances, astronomers have refined their calculation of the Hubble Constant, a number that describes how fast the universe is expanding at different distances from a specific point in space....

Perhaps the most powerful aspect of physics — and indeed perhaps the most amazing thing about the cosmos as a whole — is the universality of physical laws and theories. A few scant equations — small enough to fit on your favorite T-shirt — can...

‘It’s like saying the word ‘trillion’ almost a hundred times.’ Stars will continue to explode long after the universe is cold and “dead,” one scientist determined in diving down the rabbit hole to find the last supernova that will ever happen. When the universe as...

The universe is (nearly) 14 billion years old, astronomers confirm. With looming discrepancies about the true age of the universe, scientists have taken a fresh look at the observable (expanding) universe and have estimated that it is 13.77 billion years old (plus or minus 40...

  “In the beginning” — before the 1920s, these words had no place in our scientific understanding of the universe. Astronomers believed the cosmos to be eternal and unchanging. We knew of only one galaxy and a few million visible stars, and this was the...