If it is a galaxy, it would be the oldest known galaxy in the cosmos, but it could also be a brown dwarf or an early black ...

Led by doctoral student Tatsuya Kotani and Professor Tomoharu Oka from Keio University, the research team measured the temperature of the cosmic microwave background radiation, which is the faint ...

In the decades since Maldacena proposed the idea, physicists have used this power to address questions about whether black holes destroy information, to better understand an early epoch in the ...

This article was originally published at The Conversation. The publication contributed the article to Space.com's Expert Voices: Op-Ed & Insights. About a century ago, scientists were struggling to ...

The Methuselah Star, also known asHD 140283, has long been a subject of fascination among astronomers. Its age, initially estimated to be older than the universe itself, challenged our understanding ...

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