Scientists believe the Milky Way contains up to 400 billion stars and at least as many planets. The largest galaxy known, IC 1101, has more than 100 trillion stars. Step outside on a clear night and ...

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Galaxies, including the Milky Way, grow from thick, turbulent disks into layered structures. JWST’s images show this process ...

I’ve spent much of my long life studying — and trying to understand — the history of the universe. Along the way, I have been constantly reminded that science is essentially international: Science ...

Scientists have observed a new type of black hole that is too heavy to have been born from a star but still too slim to … The ...

The outer space is a fascinating place that will neve cease to amaze us, with incredible views that gives us a perspective of ...

NASA’s SPHEREx mission is mapping the entire sky in 102 infrared colors, turning raw space data into a public tool for ...

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A vast filament of gas stretching across the cosmos may help solve the mystery of the Universe’s missing matter. Astronomers ...

The Hubble Space Telescope has found evidence of a "wandering" black hole about 5000 light years away in the Milky Way galaxy ...

Gravitational waves stretch and squeeze the fabric of space and time itself. When space/time is squeezed, pulsar pulses ...

Namibia is a southwestern African nation roughly twice the size of California, known for having the world’s oldest desert.