A supercomputer at Oak Ridge National Laboratory in the US has just pulled off the largest astrophysical simulation of the Universe accomplished to date. In November 2024, physicists used 9,000 ...

A Neptune-sized planet, TOI-3261 b, makes a scorchingly close orbit around its host star. Only the fourth object of its kind ever found, the planet could reveal clues as to how planets such as these ...

The universe just got a whole lot bigger—or at least in the world of computer simulations, that is. In early November, researchers at the Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory used ...

Netflix and Riot Games' utterly brilliant Arcane will be followed by three further series exploring other parts of the League of Legends world. Arcane showrunner Christian Linke has now confirmed ...

Nicholas Galitzine and Camila Mendes are set to star in the film from director Travis Knight. By Ryan Gajewski Senior Entertainment Reporter Knight is helming the project from a script by Chris ...

Physicists including Robert H. Dickle and Fred Hoyle have argued that we are living in a universe that is perfectly fine-tuned for life. Following the anthropic principle, they claimed that the ...

Though that sounds like a really long time, in our 14-billion-year-old universe, just a billion years is relatively early on. These galaxies therefore raise a fundamental question: how did they ...

The Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument uses a telescope to create a three-dimensional map of the universe over 11 billion years. CORRECTS LOCATION TO 56 MILES SOUTHWEST OF TUCSON NOT IN TUCSON This ...

Today, up to several trillion galaxies are estimated to fill the Universe, based on observations of tens of millions of galaxies. In hindsight, and ignoring certain details, Curtis won the debate.

Astronomers know that the universe is being pushed apart at an accelerating rate and they have puzzled for decades over what could possibly be speeding everything up. They theorize that a powerful ...

Physicists have long grappled with the question of why the universe was able to support the evolution of intelligent life. The values of the many forces and particles, represented by some 30 so ...