Have a discussion about the origins of the Universe and, ere long, someone will inevitably use the term "the Big…
I love it when scientists discover something unusual in nature. They have no idea what it is, and then over…
Are you wearing a gold ring? Or perhaps gold-plated earrings? Maybe you have some gold fillings in your teeth... for…
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Even though the spacecraft has exhausted its supply of liquid helium coolant necessary to observe the infrared energy of the…
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Hubble mosaic of massive galaxy cluster MACS J0717.5+3745, thought to be connected by a filament of dark matter. Credit: NASA, ESA,…
Hubble images of six of the starburst galaxies first found by ESA's Herschel Space Observatory (Keck data shown below each…