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By capturing the same thing from very different perspectives, a NASA astronaut and an intrepid photographer create a whole ...

A strange “Einstein Cross” with an extra, impossible fifth image has revealed the hidden presence of a massive dark matter ...

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Max Planck is widely recognized as the father of quantum theory for his groundbreaking work on energy quanta. His initial ...

Mathematical quirks of our universe have led some cosmologists wonder whether the cosmos was actually born in a black hole.

Astronomers have discovered something that shouldn't exist: a galaxy so jam-packed with stars that they smash into each other about once a month.

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However, for the Smiths, the gray alien didn’t die in vain, because he left behind a silver helmet, along with the ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has found a lonely black hole in the early universe that’s as heavy as 50 million suns. A ...