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The Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument uses a telescope to create a three-dimensional map of the universe over 11 billion years. CORRECTS LOCATION TO 56 MILES SOUTHWEST OF TUCSON NOT IN TUCSON This ...

Astronomers know that the universe is being pushed apart at an accelerating rate and they have puzzled for decades over what could possibly be speeding everything up. They theorize that a powerful ...

Anthropic reasoning is the idea that we can infer properties of our universe from the fact that we, humans, exist. In the late 80s, physics Nobel laureate Steven Weinberg discussed a possible ...

Two developments in the coming year will mark a decisive shift from the public to the private sector in the decades-old quest to generate cheap and abundant power from nuclear fusion. The first ...

One of these is modified Newtonian dynamics (MOND), which proposes that for gravitational pulls 10 trillion times smaller than those felt on Earth's surface, such as the tugs between distant ...

Ruby Waters’s soulful pop is a blend of grits ... Waters attributes the gravity she finds in many aspects of her life to where she comes from. “There’s definitely a parallel universe where none of ...

Billions, perhaps trillions, of years from now, long after the sun has engulfed Earth, cosmologists expect the universe will end. Some wrestle with whether it is more likely to collapse under its ...

A handful of start-ups are racing to usher in an era of near-limitless fusion energy, but big questions remain. By Raymond Zhong In 1952, a machine with a funny name and a funny shape was zapped ...