When you peer out into the depths of the cosmos, a mystery lies there, waiting. In a survey of the deep sky, most of the galaxies are seen rotating in the same direction. This is a problem. Under ...

The vast realm probed by radio astronomers is one invisible to the naked eye, and even most kinds of telescopes. Now, thanks to the latest advances in radio observatories, scientists are uncovering an ...

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As theoretical physics delves deeper into the fundamental nature of reality, we’re left to grapple with the questions it leaves us. For example, some physicists claim that our universe is merely an ...

For decades, physicists have hunted for a single theory capable of explaining every force, particle, and interaction in the ...

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ESA’s Euclid mission aims to uncover the mysteries of dark matter and dark energy, which together comprise the vast majority of the known universe. ESA’s Euclid mission aims to uncover the mysteries ...

Deep in the first moments of the Big Bang, the entire cosmos shook and rumbled. Those quakes still reverberate to the present day. It will take the most sensitive instruments ever imagined to reveal ...

A physicist argues that many mysteries start to clear up once you accept that there is just one thing — the universe itself. You and I and every blade of grass, every rock and every mote of dust, and ...

Last year, the European Space Agency launched the Planck telescope, sending it nearly a million miles deep into space. Using technology with light sensitivity, the telescope was able to capture the ...