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Astronomers believe they've discovered some of the universe's earliest stars, located about 13 billion light-years from Earth ...

The discovery of a superheated star factory that forms stars 180 times faster than our own Milky Way could help solve a ...

Astronomers using data from ESA's Euclid and Herschel space telescopes have confirmed that star formation has already peaked ...

Centuries before other galaxies were known to exist, astronomers called them “spiral nebulas.” Today the defunct term still ...

Travel back 390 million years after the big bang to the ancient Maisie's Galaxy in this stunning 3D visualization that ...

The Vespera app unlocks a universe with powerful tools. Queue up cosmic targets and look at the results whenever you like.

The night sky often feels calm, yet the early universe tells a very different story. A newly studied ancient galaxy, seen as ...

It's almost become expected that many space telescopes and probes can have "extended missions." Both Voyagers are still ...