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To mark the 35th anniversary of the Hubble Space Telescope, Space.com looks at some of the most scientifically significant images that have emerged from the observatory's lens.
Let's turn the sun into a telescope. In fact, we don't have to do any work—we just have to be in the right spot.
Astronomers have detected a lone black hole drifting through the Milky Way—an unprecedented discovery made possible by ...
In recent years, with the deepening interdisciplinary research between general relativity and electromagnetism, the ...
These series of step-like bursts happen so rapidly that they are difficult to observe as these singularities wink in and out ...
On Monday, the European Space Agency (ESA) launched the ACES set of atomic clocks. It will be docked to the International ...
There's no question that Albert Einstein was one of the greatest minds of his or any generation, but there was one problem he ...
It is called a black hole, because it acts like an ideal black body, as it reflects no light. According to the theory of ...
The European Space Agency has launched two atomic clocks on a SpaceX rocket to the ISS to test Einstein's theory of ...
Under the conditions of the Hamiltonian principle, information is exchanged between two masses during an interaction by ...
However, that isn’t what scientists see. Instead, stars orbit at about the same speed regardless of their distance from the galactic center. You might see this referred to as the "Galaxy Rotation ...
The Milky Way, our home galaxy, is part of a different supercluster called Laniakea, which, at 500 million light-years wide, ...