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When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. There are currently more than 5,800 known planets beyond the solar system. Artist Martin Vargic ...

The universe is constantly expanding, and at the moment, researchers believe that the observable universe has stretched 46 billion light-years from its beginning 13.8 billion years ago. By measuring ...

A physicist argues that many mysteries start to clear up once you accept that there is just one thing — the universe itself. You and I and every blade of grass, every rock and every mote of dust, and ...

The visible cosmos may contain roughly 6 x 10^80 — or 600 million trillion trillion trillion trillion trillion trillion — bits of information, according to a new estimate. The findings could have ...

On Wednesday, NASA’s Lucy mission got one step closer to investigating the enigmatic asteroids near Jupiter. This story, however, really began in another corner of the cosmos more than three decades ...

Astronomers have come up with a new estimate for the total number of black holes in the universe, and the number is mind-bogglingly large—40 quintillion. That's 4 followed by 19 zeros. The count, ...

Nearby, the stars and galaxies we see look very much like our own. But as we look farther away, we see the Universe as it was in the distant past: less structured, hotter, younger, and less evolved.

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. The Milky Way is just a speck in a universe filled with an untold number of galaxies. But if we ...