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Using the Keck Observatory, astronomers measured the spins of dozens of giant planets and brown dwarfs orbiting distant stars. They found that giant planets can spin faster than much more massive brown dwarfs, challenging simple assumptions about ...

A dark ribbon of dust slices across the glowing heart of a spiral galaxy in Coma Berenices, creating the appearance that earned Messier 64 its well-known nickname, the Black Eye Galaxy. The feature stands out even in modest amateur telescopes, yet it ...

Astronomers have discovered the earliest known flickering quasar, whose light has traveled more than 13 billion years to reach us.

Using data from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory, astronomers may have found a supernova remnant in an intriguing neighborhood in the middle of our galaxy. A ...

The basic science of the money supply hasn't changed in the last half-century.

Astronomers aimed NASA's James Webb Space Telescope at a distant galaxy cluster called Abell S1063 with one goal in mind. They wanted to hunt for some of the very first stars that ever formed. What the telescope delivered instead turned out far more ...

Astronomers suggest that powerful winds could be responsible for destroying entire galaxies in the early cosmos.

Astronomers may have finally pinned down why some galaxies stop making stars. At a specific mass, they appear to build a self-supporting halo of hot gas that cuts off the cool fuel needed for new star formation, which results in the galaxy slowly ...