: all of space and everything in it including stars, planets, galaxies, etc.
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The theory cannot account for dark matter and offers no explanation for why the universe is made almost entirely of matter rather than equal parts matter and antimatter.—
Florencia Canelli,
Scientific American,
1 July 2026 Rubin is expected to capture more images of the universe in its first year of operation than all previous optical observatories combined.—
Jamie Carter,
Forbes.com,
1 July 2026 If the number of satellites in Earth's orbit exceeds 100,000, humanity may lose its ability to study the universe from the planet's surface.—
Tereza Pultarova,
Space.com,
1 July 2026 The cosmos may be rich creative terrain, but Muse deal with the terrifying, destabilizing fact of the universe’s infinite expanse by simply trying to fill it up.—
Liam Inscoe-Jones,
Pitchfork,
1 July 2026 See All Example Sentences for the universe