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Mark Garlick/Science Photo Library/Alamy Something is wrong with Earth. Billions of years ago, a process unlike any other began here. It has completely reshaped the Earth’s…

A compound called pyrene has been detected in a molecular cloud in the constellation Taurus.ESO A complex form of carbon important to life on Earth has…

Galaxy Messier 82 (M82), also known as the Cigar GalaxyNASA/ESA/Hubble Heritage Team (STScIAURA); J. Gallagher (University of Wisconsin), M. Mountain (STScI), P. Puxley (NSF) A scarlet…

About 13.8 billion years ago, the universe began with the Big Bang. At least, that’s what we think. Astrophysicist Jo Dunkley is at the forefront of…

If the multiverse exists, our world might fit right in itMark Garlick/Science Photo Library/Getty Images Could we live in the quantum multiverse without noticing its weirdness?…

Now, two mathematicians have proven Hawking and his team wrong. This new research, contained in two recent papers by Dr. Christoph Kähle of the Massachusetts Institute…

Chandra X-ray ObservatoryNASA/CXC & J. Vaughan On July 23, 1999, just a few months before I enrolled in college, NASA’s Space Shuttle Columbia launched with a…

Gravitational waves are vibrations of space-time itselfPeter Jurick/Alamy The following is an excerpt from the Lost in Space-Time newsletter. Every month, we hand the keyboard to…