Deep discovery

f you’ve ever read anything about cosmology, you’ll have come across an astonishing statistic: all the matter around us, everything we see and touch, every star and gas cloud and planet, makes up just

In a paper published in the journal Nature on 12 February, researchers from the snappily named Cubic Kilometre Neutrino Telescope (KM3NeT) reported the detection of an unprecedentedly energetic neutri

New data suggests that dark energy’s pulling power is changing Dark energy’s pull could be weakening over time, according to new results from the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) collaborat

Two contrasting visions of humanity’s future in space

Scientists working with the James Webb Space Telescope have likened this object to an ice cream sundae. Others examining it with the now-defunct Spitzer Space Telescope dubbed it the cosmic tornado. T

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