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Planetary scientist Scott Bolton describes his working life at the helm of NASA’s Jupiter-exploring Juno mission ...

NASA has awarded Katalyst $30 million to move forward with implementation under a Phase III award as an existing participant in NASA’s Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program, managed by the ...

Some things we see in space appear to outpace light. Now we are learning to harness these bizarre optical illusions to ...

For scientists, learning more about how black holes behave is essential to understanding how the universe works. A recent ...

A new emulator is tackling the near-impossible task of mapping the universe's large-scale structure without sacrificing intricate details. As you might imagine, mapping the universe on the largest of ...

Mathematical quirks of our universe have led some cosmologists to wonder whether the cosmos was actually born in a black hole ...

Here’s a mind-blowing thought: what if our entire universe is actually inside a black hole? Some scientists think it’s possible, and the idea is wild. They say the Big Bang might have been the result ...

Astronomers detected in unprecedented detail a collision between two black holes. Their observations confirm predictions made by Albert Einstein and Stephen Hawking.

Science advances through data that don't fit our current understanding. At least that was Thomas Kuhn's theory in his famous On the Structure of Scientific Revolutions. So scientists should welcome ...