In Into the Unknown:The Quest to Understand the Mysteries of the Cosmos, author and astronomer Kelsey Johnson argues that humanity is becoming increasingly detached from the universe—a growing ...

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Transformative discoveries in cosmology are unfolding at Princeton as researchers explore the universe’s large-scale structure, including galaxies, dark matter, and dark energy. Professor of ...

What is dark energy? The other 70 percent of the universe is thought to be comprised of dark energy. What scientists do know ...

Mysteries of the Universe Explore Science & Nature. Beginning with studies of our sun in 1890, the Smithsonian has been answering questions about our atmosphere and beyond for more than a century. The ...

AI is revolutionizing space exploration, from autonomous spaceflight to planetary exploration and charting the cosmos. ML algorithms help astronauts and scientists navigate and study space, avoid ...

A team of astronomers from the U.S. National Science Foundation NOIRLab has discovered a supermassive black hole at the center of a galaxy that formed just 1.5 billion years after the Big Bang ...

Magnetars are among the most bizarre and mysterious objects in the universe, packing in trillions of times more magnetic pull than the Earth or any magnet developed by humans.

Leaving from France on Oct. 14, the 55-by-14-foot coldbox was shipped across the Atlantic Ocean, barged up the Mississippi and Illinois rivers, and hauled into Fermi National Accelerator ...

What is the universe made of? How did it begin? How has it evolved over the 13.8 billion years since its origin? These are some of the questions addressed by cosmology, the study of the universe as a ...