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"We have discovered a galaxy that has been 'perfectly preserved' for billions of years, a true archaeological find that tells ...

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We are entering a new era of cosmic exploration. The new Vera C Rubin Observatory in Chile will transform astronomy with its ...

In an extraordinary leap forward for astrophysics, astronomers have achieved a momentous breakthrough with the first direct ...

What we saw in the DESI experiments, and now strengthened by our South Pole Telescope observations, is that dark energy is ...

Ryan Gosling has already played a teacher (“Half Nelson”) and an astronaut (“First Man”), but with “ Project Hail Mary ,” ...

thick disk only galaxies dominate the early epochs (bottom panel), while galaxies exhibiting both thin and thick disks appear more commonly in later epochs of the universe (top panel). Credit: NASA, ...

From new villains to Force Ninjas, these bold ideas could fix Star Wars and restore the franchise to its former glory.