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It's 99 percent dark matter, a new study explains.

A deep field image captured by the James Webb Space Telescope is of galaxy cluster SMACS 0723. Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, and ...

A lucky alignment of galaxies allowed researchers to identify the most powerful and distant "space laser" ever found.

Just a soft red speck buried in a sea of distant light. Easy to miss. Easy to doubt. But this glow had been traveling for billions of years before reaching Earth. It began its journey when the ...

Deep inside a dust-choked galaxy, astronomers have uncovered a chemical environment far more complex than expected.

A newly discovered jellyfish galaxy, seen as it existed 8.5 billion years ago, is challenging assumptions about conditions in the early universe. Astrophysicists at the University of Waterloo have ide ...

Straight to the dome.

NASA’s Kepler Space Telescope confirmed more than 2,600 exoplanets, including several located in the so-called habitable zone ...

Chinese researchers have developed an artificial intelligence (AI) model for astronomical imaging that significantly enhances scientists' ability to peer into the deepest reaches of the cosmos. A ...