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Stevenson 218 is the largest known star in the universe, located about 18,900 light-years away in the constellation of Scutum and far surpassing even the sun in size and brightness. So immense that it ...

According to the equations that govern black holes, the larger one of these cosmic behemoths is the lower its average density ...

A black hole in a distant quasar is growing faster than the usual limit, according to Chandra observations. This may explain ...

Dark energy, which drives the accelerated expansion of the Universe, is assumed to be constant since the Universe began by ...

The discovery of a large population of compact, red objects, now widely known as Little Red Dots (LRDs) is one of the most ...

This article, originally titled "The Man Who Discovered the Universe," is from the Summer 2025 issue of Air & Space Quarterly ...

Bizarre NASA discoveries that we’re not allowed to talk about (but we will) Space exploration consistently reveals phenomena ...

At the heart of a quasar galaxy called RACS J0320-35, just 920 million years after the Big Bang, the black hole appears to be ...

Einstein’s version of dark energy is known as the cosmological constant. It implies a fixed amount of dark energy in each ...

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