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A new study suggests that the explosive deaths of the universe's earliest stars created surprising quantities of water that ...

Physicists have created a 3D shape called the cosmohedron, which can be used to reconstruct the quantum wavefunction of the ...

Discover how scientists blend biology, synthetic biology, and astrobiology to speculate on alien life forms, focusing on the ...

Pinpointing a Milepost Marker Star that Opened the Realm of Galaxies At the dawn of the 20th century, astronomers faced a ...

With winds blowing at 20,500 mph, "the planet has complex weather patterns just like Earth and other planets of our own ...

In an article published in Physical Review Letters on Thursday, scientists carried out an innovative study testing the ...

This is called the “heat death” of the Universe, but you can think of it instead as the death of heat. There will be no more differences in temperature anywhere, which means thermodynamics shuts down, ...

"As yet, nobody has managed to understand what gives rise to this strange phenomenon, and explaining dark energy remains one ...

Thanks to the set-up of the DCU’s first Batman movie, the franchise is already in a position to surpass an 82-year-long ...

A new computational method gleans more information than its predecessors from maps showing how galaxies are clustered and threaded throughout the universe.