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Thinking about the edge of the universe is one of those ideas that fascinates pretty much everyone. We can map […] ...

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This is an article from Curious Kids, a new series aimed at children. The Conversation is asking kids to send in questions they'd like an expert to answer. All questions are welcome – serious, weird ...

Two recent studies by Professor Stefano Profumo at the University of California, Santa Cruz, propose theories that attempt to answer one of the most fundamental open questions in modern physics: What ...

Prologue: Cosmology's extraordinary new frontiers -- How far out can we see? : voyage to the edge of the known universe -- How was the universe born? : reavealing the dawn of time -- How far away will ...

To the unaided human eye, the night sky is resplendent with over 9,000 individual points of light, but that perspective covers only a bare fraction of the universe. When you purchase through links on ...