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Astronomers have surveyed massive, dense star factories, unlike any found in the Milky Way, in a large number of galaxies ...

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A massive barred spiral galaxy from 11.1 billion years ago has been discovered, showing star-forming activity and gas ...

In the vast darkness of the early universe, a spiral of light named Zhúlóng offers a new glimpse into cosmic history. This ...

Dr. Sukanya Chakrabarti, the Pei-Ling Chan Endowed Chair at The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH), a part of The ...

Space artists can sometimes stretch scientific data for a bigger visual bang. At New York's natural history museum, they ...

Astronomers reveal a new map of the Milky Way, showing a clumpy gas structure in its outer disk. The discovery reshapes how ...

Scientists have long assumed the Oort Cloud, one of the most mysterious structures in our solar system, to be spherical.

Scientists have unlocked one of the solar system's many secrets from an unexpected source: a planetarium show opening to the ...