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'Giant arc' stretching 3.3 billion light-years across the cosmos shouldn't exist
By Adam Mann published
How big is too big?
Did a dark energy discovery just prove Einstein wrong? Not quite.
By Paul Sutter published
The Dark Energy Survey just released its most comprehensive results. But did they really prove Einstein wrong?
Oldest spiral galaxy in the universe captured in fuzzy photo
By Harry Baker published
Astronomers have identified the universe's oldest spiral galaxy from a blurry image captured by the ALMA observatory.
Some of the universe's stars have gone missing. But where did they go?
By Giles Sparrow, All About Space magazine published
An international team of astronomers is on the hunt for objects that should be impossible.
Can the universe learn?
By Mara Johnson-Groh published
A team of scientists thinks the answer is "yes."
Is there a pattern to the universe?
By Paul Sutter published
For decades, cosmologists have wondered if the large-scale structure of the universe is a fractal — that is, if it looks the same no matter how large the scale.
Can our brains help prove the universe is conscious?
By David Crookes, All About Space magazine published
Leading scientists have long pondered how matter gives rise to our subjective experience of reality and believe consciousness could even permeate space and time.
The 1st few seconds of the Big Bang: What we know and what we don't
By Paul Sutter published
Believe it or not, physicists are attempting to understand the universe when it was only a handful of seconds old.
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