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How weird is the Milky Way?
In the vast expanse of the universe, the Milky Way Galaxy holds a special place in our hearts. It is our home, and after studying it for decades from our cosmic residence nestled within one of its ...
NASA’s SPHEREx space telescope has settled into low-Earth orbit, providing a wellspring of publicly available space data.
Two studies fill in gaps about the cosmos’s ordinary matter. One maps it all, even the “missing matter.” The other details one of its hiding spots.
The object 9.1 billion light-years away, named FRB 20230521B, now holds the record for the most distant FRB ever recorded.
The most distant known example of what astronomers call a “jellyfish galaxy” has been spotted by NASA’s James Webb Space ...
NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has been unwaveringly focused on our universe. With its unprecedented power to detect and ...
The Big Bang may mark an end—not the start—of a previous universe's aeon. Penrose's theory sees the universe as an eternal ...
The discovery, made with the LOFAR (LOw Frequency ARray) radio instrument in Europe, indicates that galaxy clusters, which ...
"We have discovered a galaxy that has been 'perfectly preserved' for billions of years, a true archaeological find that tells ...
Astronomers have discovered the most distant mini-halo ever seen—10 billion light-years away—revealing that galaxy clusters ...
M3GAN 2.0” won’t be the last time you hear about the robotic doll that took over the internet, the film’s stars tell ...
What we saw in the DESI experiments, and now strengthened by our South Pole Telescope observations, is that dark energy is ...