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Astronomers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill have helped uncover new clues about the longest-lasting cosmic ...

Dark matter is special in that it doesn't emit, absorb or interact with light, so science had to find a more creative way to ...

“The fact that we can now watch stars explode and immediately see the structure of the material being blasted into space is ...

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Astronomers have discovered a beautiful, well-formed spiral galaxy from a time when the universe was still very young—only ...

For 19-year-old Gael Gomez, the Mount Pleasant Sidewalk Astronomers has changed his life for the better. But soon, he may be ...

A surprisingly mature spiral galaxy from cosmic dawn is rewriting ideas about how fast the Universe built its first galaxies.

A Rutgers astrophysicist is helping to solve a cosmic puzzle that has astronomers scratching their heads. The mystery centers ...

A joint effort between two of the world’s largest neutrino experiments has brought scientists closer to understanding how the ...

NASA revealed that scientists discovered sugars that are “essential” to life and a “gum-like” substance on the space rock ...