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A telescope tasked with making the largest-ever map of the universe has confirmed a harsh, if unsurprising, truth: Nothing lasts forever — not cold November rain, or even the cosmos itself. Using a ...

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An international collaboration of scientists from Durham University in the UK, NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, and École ...

What if everything scientists ever thought about the universe’s earliest chemical reactions was wrong? Recent tests have turned decades of theory on its head, showing that the first molecular ...

Was planetary formation different during the early universe than today? This is what a recent study published in The Astrophysical Journal hopes to address as an international team of researchers ...

Earlier this year, Euclid—a European telescope tasked to create the largest 3D map of the universe—sent back troves of cosmic data from deep space. Astronomers have since been hard at work picking ...

The international University of California, Riverside-led SpARCS collaboration has discovered four of the most distant clusters of galaxies ever found, as they appeared when the universe was only 4 ...

An international team of astronomers, led by Weichen Wang of the University of Milan, Italy, discovered a massive and unusually quiescent galaxy, aptly named the “Red Potato.” Observed with the ...

Astronomers have used the NASA/ESA James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) to observe the 'inside-out' growth of a galaxy in the early universe, only 700 million years after the Big Bang. Astronomers have ...