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Imagine entire worlds larger than Earth but smaller than Neptune scattered throughout our galaxy far more often than we ever imagined. This ...

In 1981, while conducting a redshift survey of the distribution of galaxies, astronomers spotted something (or nothing) that they weren'...

Largest Structure In The  Near Universe Discovered  130,000 Times More  Massive Than Our Galaxy

Gravitational lensing of galaxy cluster Abell 2390. (ESA/Euclid/Euclid Consortium/NASA, image processing by J.-C. Cuillandre (CEA Paris-Sacl...

Possible alien world bubbling over with volcanoes detected deep in space It’s thought that there is at least one planet for every star in th...

For as long as humans have contemplated the Universe, we’ve marveled at the vastness of it all. Was our Universe infinite? Was it eternal? O...

Hydrogen gas in the primordial galaxy J0613+52 with red indicating regions turning away from Earth and blue showing regions turning toward u...

The star HD 140283 has been called the "Methuselah star" for its extreme age. At an estimated over 14 billion years old, it’s the ...

NASA’S VOYAGER 1 is on a fraught and unknowable journey into deep space. Some 14.6 billion miles from Earth, it and its sister craft, Voyage...

"To see a world in a grain of sand," the opening sentence of the poem by William Blake , is an oft-used phrase that also captures ...

The European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope (VLT) and Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) have imaged a snake-l...

                 Artist's impression of a giant galaxy with a high-energy jet.  Credit: ALMA (ESO/NAOJ/NRAO) As a result of achieving hi...

Just 12 million light-years away, the galaxies Messier 81 and 82 offer a nearby preview of the Milky Way-Andromeda merger. Right in our cosm...

The radio telescope at the Parkes Observatory at sunset near the town of Parkes, Australia, July 15, 2019.  Stefica Nicol Bikes/Reuters Myst...

Artist’s conceptual image of the protostar discovered in the extreme outer Galaxy. Credit: Niigata University For the first time, astronomer...

  Prove It... I was raised Methodist, attended Episcopal and Baptist for a while but then decided that my faith was more spiritual than inst...

The Hubble Space Telescope captured a stunning ‘Einstein Ring’ 3.4 billion light-years from Earth. This cosmic display, formally known as ...

In 2017, astronomers noticed a star streaking out of the Milky Way at nearly 2 million mph (3.2 million km/h) — roughly four times faster t...

Is mankind alone in the universe? Or are there somewhere other intelligent beings looking up into their night sky from very different worlds...

From the smallest microbe to the mightiest oak, death is as true for above as it is for below, even for the mightiest galaxies. The process,...