Exploring bleeding edge experiments, oddities, new and bizarre dicoveries, and fact-checking conspiracy theories since 2008. No question is out of bounds and no topic is too strange for a deep dive.
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If you imagine galaxies as tranquil clouds of gas and dust, lit up by billions of pinpoints of light, a 3D map of the Milky Way and the details behind it will show you otherwise.
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Just because the universe is dying doesn’t mean you and your civilization have to die with it, at least not if you’re ready to go stellar grave robbing.
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It turns out that one of the oldest objects in the known universe is only a few thousand light years from Earth.
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Astronomers discovered a large proto-supercluster that shows us just how quickly the universe we see today organized itself.
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Despite their fearsome reputation, we simply wouldn't exist without black holes.
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On further review, the study claiming that the universe is expanding at a steady rate ended up independently proving accelerating expansion.
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A new paper claims that the universe's expansion isn't accelerating. If that's true, we have to start rewriting cosmology as we know it.
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While studying mysterious fast radio bursts, astronomers figured out why the universe weighs as much as it does and where that mass went.
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If you've heard about the Cold Spot, you may have read that it's caused by a strangely low density of galaxies in that area of the universe. But the truth is much, much weirder...
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It turns out that one of the best ways to learn about dark matter is to turn out the lights, lean back, and closely watch a little gravitational galaxy on galaxy action.