After a century of observations spanning the breadth of the cosmos and theoretical insights that push humanity's vision of ...

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Nobel laureate Kip Thorne, who will deliver the Royal Irish Academy 2025 Hamilton Lecture, on his lifelong quest to ...

A galaxy far, far away just got a little more romantic — and fans are losing it over Star Wars’ bold new move.

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According to the model, dark matter may have started as particles that were hot, light, massless, and fast. As the universe ...

Astronomers say that NASA's James Webb Space Telescope may have spotted the universe's first "dark stars" that are fuelled by ...

Scientists found where the universe’s missing matter went. Black holes have been pushing it far away from galaxies.

Astrophysicists have presumed for nearly a century that the universe will just keep expanding for all eternity, driven by an ...