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While it’s difficult to say for sure who the fastest superhero is—there are plenty of challengers to The Flash—determining the fastest IRL humans, or the fastest anything else for that matter, is ...

Biggest vs smallest - how do we measure up in the grand scheme of the universe? Explore the fascinating scales of existence, from quantum particles to the observable universe’s edge. A journey into ...

Using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope an international team of astronomers has measured the distance to this new galaxy, named GN-z11. Although extremely faint, the galaxy is unusually bright ...

If you wanted to understand how our Universe operates, you'd have to examine it at a fundamental level. Macroscopic objects are made up of particles, which can only themselves be detected by going to ...

If the Universe is 13.8 billion years old, and the speed of light is truly our cosmic speed limit, how far away should we be able to see? The answer seems obvious: 13.8 billion light-years, since a ...

The cosmic distance ladder employs a series of methods to measure increasingly vast astronomical distances, with each technique building upon the previous one for verification. Parallax, using stellar ...

The search for the universe’s center starts with a simple intuition: if everything exploded outward in the Big Bang, there ...