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March 14, 2018

Stephen Hawking, famed physicist, dead at 76

Stephen Hawking, the famed theoretical physicist who defied a diagnosis of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis to live virtually his entire adult life with the disease – in a wheelchair and paralyzed but making constant contributions to a world few could understand – has died at age 76, a family spokesman said.

March 12, 2018

Biggest black holes may grow faster than host galaxies

Some of the most monstrous black holes in the universe are growing faster than their host galaxies, new research suggests.

March 9, 2018

Massive space structures have surprising connection to Quantum mechanics math

Enormous disks of stars or debris can operate under the same rules as subatomic particles, changing based on the Schrodinger equation, which physicists use to model quantum-mechanical systems.

March 9, 2018

Dying star reanimates stellar corpse

The superdense corpse of a once-massive star roared back to life, briefly, by feasting on its dying companion, a new study suggests.

March 7, 2018

Passing through a black hole could open up a whole new future, but it would erase your past

It’s a controversial idea. But an enticing one. A new study has once again tackled the implications of a black hole’s event horizon — the point beyond which not even light can escape its gravitational pull.

March 7, 2018

A 'living dead' star that could shed light on the early universe

Adam Hadhazy, writer and editor for The Kavli Foundation, contributed this article to Space.com's

March 6, 2018

Stephen Hawking says he knows what happened before the dawn of time

It's the biggest question in the universe. What happened before the Big Bang? Now world-famous physicist Steven Hawking says he has an answer.

March 1, 2018

Cosmic dawn: Astronomers find fingerprints of universe's first stars

The cosmic dark ages lasted no more than 180 million years.

March 1, 2018

The universe's first stars may reveal a big clue about dark matter

A big clue about the nature of mysterious dark matter may have been discovered.

February 27, 2018

The universe is expanding faster than we thought, Hubble data suggests

Recent Hubble Space Telescope findings suggest that the universe is expanding much faster than expected — and astronomers say the rules of physics may need to be rewritten in order to understand why.