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Want to feel cosmically insignificant? Wikipedia's "Timeline of the far future" catalogs scientific predictions stretching from the year 3001 to incomprehensibly distant timescales -- 10^106 years and beyond. Some highlights from the itinerary: In ...

A bright blue jet of plasma captured by the Hubble Space Telescope, the "cosmic blowtorch" in the image above has been traced 3,000 light years through space by the Event Horizon Telescope. Its source: the supermassive black hole at the heart of the ...

Monument Plaza at Hoover Dam features something most visitors walk right over without noticing: a terrazzo floor designed as a celestial map marking the dam's 1936 completion using Earth's axial precession -- a 25,772-year cycle, Long Now reports.

Researchers at Cambridge University made a big splash in April last year when they announced that they had strong evidence that life existed on exoplanet K2-18b, orbiting a star 124 ...