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Look up on a dark night and the stars seem scattered at random. Step back in scale, though, and the Universe looks nothing ...

The blank horizontal bar is the galactic plane area, which was excluded from the analysis to avoid strong astrophysical ...

In the leading model of cosmology, most of the universe is invisible: a combined 95% is made of dark matter and dark energy.

NASA's next big eye on the cosmos is now fully assembled. On Nov. 25, technicians joined the inner and outer portions of the ...

The beginning of winter is a great time to be taking up astronomy, with long dark nights and a multitude of bright stars on ...

For a long time, astronomers have noticed that stars rotate too quickly at the edges of galaxies, as if a hidden mass were ...

Using some of the world's most powerful telescopes, a team of researchers found more than 280 galaxies stretched in a line ...

Modern technology is amazing: where humans see an unchanging void in the depths of the universe, space telescopes are capable ...

In a groundbreaking discovery, astronomers have successfully discovered 53 new quasars powered by supermassive black holes ...