"The discovery of this stream highlights how much is still unknown about the life histories of galaxies, how the hidden ...

The first official image from the Vera Rubin Observatory has revealed a ghostly river of stars stretching farther than our ...

Our search for exoplanets is focused on Milky Way stars. It's been successful, with more than 6,000 detected so far.

The Milky Way has just been reconstructed in unprecedented detail, with artificial intelligence helping astronomers track the ...

Scientists estimate over 100 billion galaxies in the universe, each unique in shape and size, revealing the vastness of cosmic creation.

A mysterious, high-energy glow from gamma-rays in the Milky Way's center is reigniting the debate: dark matter or a hidden ...

The study suggests that similar star factories may have been widespread in the early universe, although many may still be ...

The discovery of a superheated star factory that forms stars 180 times faster than our own Milky Way could help solve a ...

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have uncovered a trove of complex organic molecules frozen in ice around a ...

Edwin Hubble redefined the universe and Brazil declared a republic, amid other landmark events shaping history and science ...

The mystery of galaxies in the early Universe just got even weirder. A team of astronomers has identified a giant spiral galaxy so well-formed that it already has a stable galactic bar; a long, ...

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