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Researchers have discovered a large, orderly spiral galaxy that formed soon after the Big Bang, when space was only about 1.5 ...

New James Webb Space Telescope observations have revealed a galaxy that shouldn’t exist, a complex spiral galaxy named ...

Astronomers have discovered that 3I/ATLAS is carrying methanol and other chemicals that were probably important in the origin ...

Recently, astrophysicist Avi Loeb claimed that 3I/ATLAS boasts a “heartbeat”-like pulse that could provide evidence of the ...

Dusty stars close to the Milky Way’s black hole stay stable for years. New infrared data shows they survive gravity and ...

An object inside our galaxy is moving so fast that it is on track to break free of the Milky Way altogether, racing through ...

It’s always amazing, and more than a little humbling, when the universe reminds us that our “common sense” is provincial, ...

We live inside the Milky Way, but we don’t know where it actually ends. This is the stunning truth about our galaxy’s hidden boundaries. Journey beyond the spiral arms into the vast, spherical halo of ...

A scientist analyzing Fermi telescope data found a strange glow around the Milky Way that looks like it could be coming from ...

Still, science being science, we needed proof—and we got it in 1992, when two astronomers found two planets orbiting a pulsar ...