Cosmic dust does far more than float through space. It's the raw material from which stars, planets and possibly even life ...

These telescopes represent the cutting edge of astronomical discovery, probing the universe across the electromagnetic ...

The telescope has the world's largest digital camera, which is the size of a small car, weighs 2,800 kg, and boasts a ...

Earth and our entire Milky Way galaxy may sit inside a mysterious giant hole which makes the cosmos expand faster here than in neighbouring regions of ...

Some of these open clusters are pretty famous, such as the Pleiades cluster, also known as the Seven Sisters. This is ...

Earth and our entire Milky Way galaxy may sit inside a mysterious giant hole which makes the cosmos expand faster here than in neighboring regions of the universe, astronomers say.

Voids are not exactly empty (actually, the missing matter of the universe is spread there), and lonely galaxies and small ...

Astronomers have turned the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) into a time machine to peer back in cosmic ...

Scientists are still trying to understand how galaxies formed and evolved from primordial gas clouds into the organized ...

The universe will not last forever. In fact, scientists have revealed that its lifespan is almost half over already.

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