A strange line of dwarf galaxies may have been the result of a bullet-like cosmic collision. Michael Keim at Yale University and his colleagues used the Keck Observatory in Hawaii to study a unique ...

Artificial intelligence has just turned one of astronomy’s most familiar workhorses into a discovery engine all over again.

For decades, astronomers have treated dark matter as the invisible scaffolding of the cosmos, a mysterious substance that ...

After combing through NASA's James Webb Space Telescope's archive of sweeping extragalactic cosmic fields, a small team of astronomers at the University of Missouri says they have identified a sample ...

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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 ...

The most distant galaxies in this deep field image from the James Webb Space Telescope appear as small, faint dots—and are receding from us faster than the speed of light due to cosmic expansion. If ...

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