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For years, the James Webb Space Telescope has been spotting enormous black holes in the early universe that defy all ...

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Optical proof of a tiny companion orbiting supergiant star Betelgeuse is hard to come by. Hubble just spotted new evidence.

An extremely early Type II supernova explosion, named after the Titan goddess of dawn in Greek mythology, occurred just 1 ...

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At Armagh Observatory, Italian-born astronomer Dr. Stefano Bagnulo shares his lifelong passion for astronomy, his ...

Dark matter seems invisible, but it makes up most matter, and we have evidence that it gives the cosmos its shape. Now ...

After two years of careful study of Webb images, researchers at the Niels Bohr Institute’s Cosmic Dawn Centre reached a ...

A distant Sun-like star suddenly went dark for months, stunning astronomers who quickly realized something massive was ...

An international research team led by scientists at Waseda University and Tohoku University has discovered an extraordinary ...