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An artist’s impression of the cosmic web. It looks like a vast cobweb-like structure or mostly purple and some orange filaments on a black background.

Giant voids of nothingness may be flinging the universe apart

By Paul Sutter published

Dark energy could be caused by pressure from giant voids of nothingness that may be flinging the universe apart.

Cosmology
Albert Einstein's E=mc2

9 equations that changed the world

By Adam Mann last updated

Here are nine equations that altered the course of history.

Mathematics
On Jan. 4, 2022, engineers successfully deployed the James Webb Space Telescope sunshield, shown here during its final deployment test on Earth in December 2020 at Northrop Grumman in Redondo Beach, California. The tennis court-sized sunshield will protect the telescope from heat.

Biden to reveal first James Webb Telescope image today. Here's what to expect.

By Ben Turner last updated

The telescope's new images will show stars forming, distant galaxies locked in a cosmic dance, and some of the universe's very first light.

Space Exploration
The universe. Nebula Abstract background. Xuanyu Han via Getty Images

What is the universe?

By Paul Sutter published

Reference It's quite a big question and a lot is still unknown about the universe, but we'll tell you everything that we do know, from how the universe was created, how old it is and what it's even made of.

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Mathematics is the language of the universe

The universe would not make sense without mathematics

By Peter Watson published

Mathematics is the language of the universe: It is probable that every major scientific discovery has used mathematics in some form.

Mathematics
The exoplanet K2–18b, a super-Earth capable of both water and temperatures that could support life.

Exoplanets: Alien worlds beyond our solar system

By Robert Lea published

Reference As long as humanity has been gazing at the stars we have dreamed about life on other worlds, now known as exoplanets.

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The origin of life might be discovered by looking into our DNA

7 theories on the origin of life

By Charles Q. Choi, Scott Dutfield published

Reference From lightning to space rocks, here are ideas for how the first life on Earth came to be.

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The Haro 11 galaxy. Like Tololo 0440-381, this nearby galaxy gives off a type of radiation that scientists think resembles the characteristics of the earliest stars in the universe. Haro 11 is about 300 million light-years away in the constellation Sculptor.

Powerful, nearby black holes could help to explain universe's origins

By Doris Elin Salazar published

Nearby galaxies and their black holes could hold the answers to the existential questions that remain unanswered about the beginning of the universe.

Black Holes
The James Webb Space Telescope launched from Europe's Spaceport at 7:20 a.m. EST on Dec. 25.

In a historic launch, the Webb Telescope blasts off into space

By Mindy Weisberger published

An international partnership of space agencies just launched JWST, the biggest, most powerful space telescope ever made, in an achievement that was decades in the making.

Space Exploration
Artist's illustration of a supermassive black hole emitting a jet of energetic particles. Such black holes are also strong emitters of X-ray light, which is apparently reflected off gas and dust in the surrounding accretion disk..

How many black holes are there in the universe?

By Paul Sutter published

In a recent study, researchers determined that about 1% of all the "normal" (that is, not dark) matter in the universe is bound up inside black holes.

Black Holes
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