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Big Bang, conceptual image (Getty Images/ALFRED PASIEKA/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY)

Did alien life form after the Big Bang?

Carlyn Zwarenstein
Multiverse, bubbles, concept (Getty Images/VICTOR DE SCHWANBERG/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY)

Can we escape this dismal reality?

Carlyn Zwarenstein
CASPAR, a small particle accelerator located nearly a mile underground at SURF, can recreate the conditions inside stars, including the first stars in the universe. (Matt Kapust / Sanford Underground Research Facility)

The poetry of a particle accelerator

Rae Hodge
Spinning Galaxy (Getty Images/cokada)

Singing the ancient hymn of the Big Bang

Rae Hodge
A mosaic collected by James Webb of a region of space close to the Big Dipper, with insets showing the location of six new candidate galaxies from the dawn of the universe. (NASA, ESA, CSA, I. Labbe (Swinburne University of Technology), G. Brammer (Niels Bohr Institute’s Cosmic Dawn Center at the University of Copenhagen))

Webb sees galaxies that shouldn't exist

Matthew Rozsa
Multiverse, concept (Getty Images/VICTOR HABBICK VISIONS/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY)

We're living in a Groundhog Day universe

Troy Farah
Artist conception of the James Webb Space Telescope. (NASA GSFC/CIL/Adriana Manrique Gutierrez)

NASA's new telescope, explained

Chris Impey - The Conversation
Rick and Morty | Loki (Photo illustration by Salon/Adult Swim/Marvel Studios)

Do we live in a multiverse?

Matthew Rozsa
The Disordered Cosmos by Chanda Prescod-Weinstein (Photo illustration by Salon/Chanda Prescod-Weinstein/Bold Type Books)

A physicist mulls a universe of bias

Joshua Roebke - Undark
Hubble Ultra Deep Field conceptualized as a sphere (Nasa/Salon)

Why the universe may end with a crunch

Nicole Karlis
This image provided by the Illustris Collaboration in May 2014 shows light distribution of a massive cluster in a simulation of the evolution of the universe since the Big Bang. (AP Photo/Illustris Collaboration) (AP)

Nobel Prize for Big Bang breakthroughs

Robert T. Fisher - The Conversation
(Getty/Cappan)

Black holes don't always start as stars

Nicole Karlis, Keith A. Spencer
(AP Photo/Matt Dunham, FILE)

Hawking's success: against all odds

Martin Rees - The Conversation
(AP/Ahn Young-joon)

Fast and fizzy K-pop

Paula Young Lee

Aja Romano - The Daily Dot
(AP/Alessandra Tarantino)

The pope schools creationists

Sarah Gray
(Albert Einstein, 1921 Ferdinand Schmutzer via Wikimedia Commons)

Sarah Gray
Neil DeGrasse Tyson (AP/Richard Shotwell)

Sarah Gray

Sarah Gray
Neil deGrasse Tyson (AP/Richard Shotwell)

Dan Arel - Alternet

"Cosmos" has fanatics freaked

Adam Lee - Alternet
(John Shearer/invision/AP)

Colin Lecher - Popular Science
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