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Life

Why do we exist? The meaning of life isn’t to be found in the stars

We are tiny specks of life in a vast, indifferent cosmos – but to say that decreases the value of our existence is to measure ourselves against the wrong thing

Features

Cosmic distance ladder stretches into the universe

Space

Cosmic calculation may settle debate about the rate the universe grows

News

Space

We finally know when the first stars in the universe switched on

News

Physics

The hunt for a primordial force that would revolutionise cosmology

Features

Space

Why the big bang may not have been the beginning of the universe

Comment

Space

Enormous strands of galaxies in the cosmic web appear to be spinning

News

Physics

Merging galaxies throw shade on alternative dark matter theory

News

Space

Line of galaxies is so big it breaks our understanding of the universe

News

Space

Project Hail Mary review: Andy Weir conjures a new tale of space peril

Culture

Space

Antimatter stars may lurk in the solar system’s neighbourhood

There have been hints that 14 unlikely and exotic stars made of antimatter, called antistars, could exist in the area immediately surrounding our solar system

News

Space

One of our most basic assumptions about the universe may be wrong

News

Space

Why the universe can be described by the equations of fluids

Comment

Space

Everything we know about the universe – and a few things we don't

Features

Physics

We may be able to find magnetic fields from the start of the universe

News