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A new freely downloadable universe simulation reveals the structure of galaxies and galactic clusters over more than 13 billion years of history.

A new theory suggests dark matter may have come from quantum bags that got squished together in the early universe.

Scientists have figured out the average color of the universe by recording visible light from more than 200,000 galaxies.

Some of Hawking's theories revolutionized the way we view the universe, but others still leave scientists scratching their heads.

Astrophysicists say our universe might be shaped like a three-dimensional donut, meaning you could point a spaceship in one direction and eventually return to where you started.

Atoms are the building blocks of all matter in the universe, but how many are there in the part of it we can see from Earth?

Researchers found evidence of an elusive magneto-rotational hypernova explosion for the first time ever.

Our planet is constantly moving, racing around the sun and spinning on its axis. But how fast does it move?

Tendrils of galaxies up to hundreds of millions of light-years long may be the largest spinning objects in the universe, a new study finds.