The Largest Known Things In The Universe, Ranked By Size

The known universe is full of shockingly huge things. Here are the largest planets, stars, galaxies, and structures we've ...
Scientific American

What’s the Smallest Particle in the Universe?

“There’s a lot of meanings for ‘small,’” says Janet Conrad, a particle physicist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology ...
AOL

Scientists puzzled by giant planet detected orbiting tiny star

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Astronomers have spotted a cosmic mismatch that has left them perplexed - a really big planet orbiting a really small star. The discovery defies current understanding of how ...
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Exoplanet Discoveries Pass the 6,000 Mark, Shedding Light on How Our Solar System Compares With the Rest of the Universe

The rate of finding these distant worlds has recently increased, with astronomers scrambling to accommodate the data ...
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Largest Planet in the Universe

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NPR

The hunt for a microbial marvel that can help with the planet's biggest issues

What if the solutions to some of Earth's biggest problems could be found in some of its smallest creatures? That bet has led a team of researchers to places both remote and — lately — rather familiar.
Space.com

'The models were right!' Astronomers locate universe's 'missing' matter in the largest cosmic structures

"The 'missing' matter may truly be lurking in hard-to-see threads woven across the universe." Astronomers have discovered a vast tendril of hot gas linking four galaxy clusters and stretching out for ...