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Note: The Endeavour is no longer on display. It will remain off display until the Samuel Oschin Air and Space Center opens in a few years. A world of fun and exploration await kids, as well as curious ...

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Are we living in a simulation? Well, the jury's out on that one. But humans do create simulations all the time. In fact, the Euclid Consortium, the international group managing the European Space ...

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A provocative new theory suggests that the Universe may not have begun with a traditional Big Bang, but rather as a “Big Bounce” — the explosive rebound of matter collapsing into a black hole. Led by ...

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Using the world’s largest digital camera, Rubin will capture a full view of the southern sky every three days. reading time 6 minutes The Vera C. Rubin Observatory is a winner of the 2025 Gizmodo ...

In 2019, gravitational wave detectors on Earth picked up a signal that left scientists baffled. Gravitational waves are ripples in the fabric of space and time, usually created when massive, dense ...

An estimated 10 nonillion (10 to the 31st power) individual viruses exist on our planet—enough to assign one to every star in the universe 100 million times over. Yet, most of the time, our species ...

Astronomers have spotted one of the fastest-growing black holes ever recorded, raising fresh questions about how such giants emerged so soon after the Big Bang. What makes this black hole so unusual?