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Editor's Note: This story was updated at 5:10 p.m. E.T. There's nothing like staring up at the night sky to make you feel small. But when looking out into the cosmos, you might also wonder: What is ...

A mysterious object has been detected at the edge of the universe, sparking curiosity and debate within the scientific community. As researchers scramble to understand its origins and purpose, ...

One hundred degrees might seem hot, when you’re sweating through your shirt in July—but on a cosmic scale it barely registers. The Sun itself is over 15 million degrees; and in a hottest-object ...

Editor's Note: This story was updated at 5:10 p.m. E.T. There's nothing like staring up at the night sky to make you feel small. But when looking out into the cosmos, you might also wonder: What is ...

A gamma-ray burst from about 13 billion light years away has become the most distant object in the known universe. Edo Berger of the Harvard Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics offers his insight ...

A high schooler, Matteo Paz, won $250,000 for discovering 1.5 million new space objects with AI. Paz built an AI algorithm to search data from a NASA space telescope for objects such as black holes.

Cambridge, MA – The invention of the CAT scan led to a revolution in medical diagnosis. Where X-rays give only a flat two-dimensional view of the human body, a CAT scan provides a more revealing three ...

The universe is a big place — really big — and it’s filled with some wondrously weighty objects. The heaviest of them all are black holes and neutron stars. In fact, they weigh so much that it’s ...

The vast majority of matter is dark – invisible until it is detected only through its gravitational effects. The newly discovered object could be a clump of dark matter, or it could also be a compact, ...