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You'll travel nearly a trillion miles in your lifetime, even if you never leave home. Here's how.
By Paul Sutter published
Whether you're a frequent jet-setter or a couch potato, you travel much more than you think, thanks the motion of the Earth, sun, Milky Way galaxy and more.

Galaxy from the 'teenage' universe reveals its water map for the 1st time
By Robert Lea published
A galaxy that existed less than 2 billion years after the Big Bang has revealed the distribution of its water content for the first time.

Curious Kids: What comes after space?
By Maggie Lieu published
To find out what is beyond space, a good place to start would be to figure out where space – our universe – ends. The problem is we don't know where space ends, or even if it ends at all.

'Hidden' photons could shed light on mysterious dark matter
By Robert Lea published
A new super-cool technique could shed light on a hidden dark matter candidate known as 'dark photons.'

World's biggest radio telescope could tease out secrets of dark matter, universe's 1st galaxies
By Robert Lea published
The coming Square Kilometre Array could shed light on mysterious dark matter, revealing the role it played in the formation of the universe's first galaxies.

How human 'computers' Annie Jump Cannon and Henrietta Swan Leavitt revolutionized astronomy
By Paul Sutter published
In the early 20th century, a team of women went far beyond their job descriptions, not to mention the societal norms of the time, to revolutionize astronomy.

Why didn't the infant universe collapse into a black hole?
By Paul Sutter published
Why didn't the universe collapse into a black hole during the earliest moments of the Big Bang? Simply put, because that's not how you make a black hole.

The expansion of the universe could be a mirage, new theoretical study suggests
By Robert Lea published
New research looking at the cosmological constant problem suggests the expansion of the universe could be an illusion.
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