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Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope report that a powerful gamma-ray burst detected in March may have been ...

It’s always amazing, and more than a little humbling, when the universe reminds us that our “common sense” is provincial, ...

Today on Variant, we talk about the most powerful objects in the DC Universe and which one takes the top spot! The 10 Most ...

If you look across space with a telescope, you'll see countless galaxies, most of which host large central black holes, ...

Most of the universe is made up of dark matter and dark energy. The majority of everything else is dispersed throughout space ...

Astronomers combing through old image data have found evidence of a Star Wars-style planet orbiting two suns that previous ...

There is an important and unresolved tension in cosmology regarding the rate at which the universe is expanding, and ...

Depending on how you look at it, the universe might not have an "end," after all. Whether the universe will "end" at all is not certain, but all evidence suggests it will continue being humanity's ...

Yu-Jing Qin, a postdoctoral researcher at California Institute of Technology (Caltech), led a series of spectroscopic ...

New measurements using gravitational lensing suggest the universe’s current expansion rate does not agree with signals from ...

"A bit like dinosaurs on Earth — they were enormous and primitive. And they had short lives, living for just a quarter of a ...