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It's a fitting portrait of the facility that will soon transform our understanding of the dynamic universe by capturing ...

"It's possible we will see the new data and confirm one theory over the other — or maybe we'll find nothing, in which case it ...

An excess of gamma rays in the center of our galaxy could mean scientists have finally detected dark matter particles—or not ...

At the heart of the Milky Way, a faint and widespread glow of gamma rays has puzzled astronomers for decades. The light could ...

Astronomers have discovered a surprisingly "pristine" red giant with the lowest concentration of heavy elements ever seen in ...

The mystery of galaxies in the early Universe just got even weirder. A team of astronomers has identified a giant spiral galaxy so well-formed that it already has a stable galactic bar; a long, ...

For decades, astronomers have been vying to identify a source for a mysterious gamma-ray excess at the center of the Milky ...

On the night of Oct. 5, 1923, Edwin Hubble observed a strange star that flickered in intensity at regular intervals. The star ...

An MIT astronomy class has found three of the oldest stars in the universe lurking right outside the Milky Way. The stars, about 30,000 light-years from Earth, are in the galaxy's "halo," the cloud of ...

To find the universe’s oldest stars, you must look for the ones with low chemical abundances and a retrograde orbit. That’s what a group of students in a class of MIT professor of physics and division ...

Astronomers have discovered the most distant barred spiral galaxy, similar to the Milky Way, that has been observed to date. Using the James Webb Space Telescope, an international team, including ...