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Do you have a message you want to shout out to the universe? Or whisper into the ear-equivalent of an alien?In interstellar space, more than 20bn…

February 16, 20262 min read Add Us On GoogleAdd SciAmAstronomers spot one of the largest spinning structures in the universeThis enormous chain of hundreds of galaxies—a…

I get e-mail.Most messages are press releases about astronomical discoveries—okay, scratch that; most of them are spam, but science announcements are an easy second place. But…

RESEARCH HIGHLIGHT 30 January 2026 The six-year results from the Dark Energy Survey highlight unresolved tensions in standard cosmological theory.

January 28, 20262 min read Add Us On GoogleAdd SciAmJWST spots most distant galaxy ever, pushing the limits of the observable universeThe galaxy MoM-z14 could offer…

The universe is exploding.Or parts of it are. The night sky may seem calm, even serene, but that masks events of a catastrophic and nearly unimaginable…

On Christmas Day 2021, alongside other astronomers, I watched the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) launch from French Guiana and begin its month-long journey to its…

In Stranger Things, the supernatural villain Vecna rules a nightmarish parallel world called the Upside Down. Credit: Netflix/Everett/ShutterstockThroughout its five seasons, the Netflix show Stranger Things…

November 19, 20252 min readJWST May Have Seen the First Stars in the UniverseAlthough these findings from JWST are yet to be confirmed, they mark the…

November 15, 20252 min readScientists Measure the Temperature of the Universe Just after the Big BangQuark-gluon plasma, a bizarre state of matter that mimics the early…