A mole is a non-numerical number–like a dozen. When you order a dozen donuts, everyone knows you mean exactly 12 donuts. If ...

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The atlas covers the expanse of the universe and the inner solar system, and it cycles through the lives and deaths of stars. It flings readers out to Neptune and Uranus, the farthest of the ...

Supermassive black holes exist at the center of most galaxies, and modern telescopes continue to observe them at surprisingly early times in the universe's evolution. It's difficult to understand ...

While short lived, this black hole's 'feast' could help astronomers explain how supermassive black holes grew so quickly in the early Universe. Using data from NASA's JWST and Chandra X-ray ...

But axions, as they are called, could constitute most of the matter in our universe, forming the unseen skeletons of galaxies and chains of light that adorn the skies of astronomers. Confirmation ...

Phobos looks like the pupil of a googly eye against the warm glow of the sun. NASA's Perseverance Mars rover was treated to a "googly eye" solar eclipse as the planet's moon Phobos passed in front ...

Stars are hot balls of gas and the Milky Way galaxy contains more than 100 billion of the up to one septillion stars the universe could contain. The Milky Way only produces around two or three new ...

Over the last century or so, science has homed in on an answer: the Big Bang. This describes how the Universe was born in a cataclysmic explosion almost 14 billion years ago. In a tiny fraction of ...

If the hypothesis is borne out, it could help to solve a growing conundrum in cosmology. For years, astronomers have found that the universe appears to be expanding at different speeds depending ...

In a new photo book, The Universe in 100 Colors, science enthusiasts Tyler Thrasher and Terry Mudge take readers on a tour of color across scientific disciplines—from things most people will ...

We're coming up to the one year anniversary of Marvel's new Ultimate Universe and if you've been following the various comics then you'll know that means we're well past the halfway point of the ...