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The Holy Grail of physics is a Theory of Everything: where a single equation describes the whole Universe. But maybe there simply isn't ...

JWST isn't the first telescope to peer into this factory of star-birth some 5500 light-years away, but its views are the most educational.

Going back to 1990, we hadn't even found one planet outside of our Solar System. As we close in on 6000, we now see many of them directly.

Since even before Einstein, physicists have sought a theory of everything to explain the Universe. Can positive geometry lead us there?

Across all wavelengths of light, the Sun is brighter than the Moon. Until we went to the highest energies and saw a gamma-ray surprise.

The Juno spacecraft, orbiting and imaging Jupiter since 2016, is still succeeding. Without a further extension, the mission now faces ...

With several seemingly incompatible observations, cosmology faces many puzzles. Could early, supermassive stars be the unified solution?

As we look to larger cosmic scales, we get a broader view of the expansive cosmic forest, eventually revealing the grandest views of all.

The Universe isn't just expanding; the expansion is accelerating. If different methods yield incompatible results, is dark energy evolving?

When you don't have enough clues to bring your detective story to a close, you should expect that your educated guesses will all be wrong.