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Surely There Must Be Someone Out There in All That Space

Jaime Green 22/07/2022

Ample room doesn't necessitate occupation.

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Earendel: Hubble Space Telescope Spots Farthest Star Yet

This luminous blue star, nicknamed Earendel, is long gone,...

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Spotted in New Gravitational Wave Discovery: A Stranger in the Stellar Graveyard

Abhirup Ghosh 23/06/2020

One of the two objects involved in the new...

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Astronomers May Not Like It but Astronomy and Colonialism Have a Shared History

Nithyanand Rao 02/02/2020

Casting Native Hawai'ians' opposition to the Thirty Meter Telescope...

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Watch: Stephen Hawking, the Cosmic Bard, Traveller and Poet

The Wire Staff 14/03/2018

Stephen Hawking (1941-2018) was one of the most popular...

Galaxy NGC 1398, photographed by the Dark Energy Survey. Credit: uclmaps/Flickr, CC BY 2.0

Centennial: Einstein’s Desperate Mistake, the Cosmological Constant

Vasudevan Mukunth 09/02/2017

There are multiple implications of the cosmological constant that...

Astronomers using the Hubble Space Telescope have captured the most comprehensive picture ever assembled of the evolving Universe — and one of the most colourful. The study is called the Ultraviolet Coverage of the Hubble Ultra Deep Field. Caption and credit: hubble_esa/Flickr, CC BY 2.0

A Universe Out of Sight

Vasudevan Mukunth 05/06/2016

We've been able to find that the universe is...