A team of astronomers using a variety of ground and space-based telescopes including the W. M. Keck Observatory on Maunakea, ...

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FROSTI is a new adaptive optics system that precisely corrects distortions in LIGO’s mirrors caused by extreme laser power.

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There is an important and unresolved tension in cosmology regarding the rate at which the universe is expanding, and ...

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A joint effort between two of the world’s largest neutrino experiments has brought scientists closer to understanding how the universe survived its violent beginnings. The findings could reveal why ...

A giant rotating filament of the cosmic web may be the largest spinning structure ever seen, and could help reveal how ...

Where is the center of the universe? Learn why researchers say the rules may not apply to the center of the universe.

Molecules containing noble gases shouldn’t exist. By definition, these chemical elements — helium, neon, argon, krypton, xenon and radon — are the party poopers of the periodic table, huddling in the ...