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Recreating cosmic dust may help answer questions about how meteorites hitting Earth came to contain the organic matter that they do ...

Want to feel cosmically insignificant? Wikipedia's "Timeline of the far future" catalogs scientific predictions stretching from the year 3001 to incomprehensibly distant timescales -- 10^106 years and beyond. Some highlights from the itinerary: In ...

Hubble's stunning views of distant galaxies continue to surprise us, and this latest photo of NGC 7722 serves as a gentle reminder. This lenticular beauty is a true head-scratcher, as it's located in the constellation Pegasus, a good 187 million ...

Snow Moon, the last full moon of the winter, is here.

NASA scientists have determined that Jupiter's moon Europa is covered in a seriously thick icy shell that measures 18 miles deep.

A young star called V1298 Tau is giving astronomers a front-row seat to the birth of the galaxy's most common planets. Four massive but extremely low-density worlds orbiting the star appear to be inflated precursors of super-Earths and sub-Neptunes. ...

Published in Nature Astronomy, the study details how Webb's infrared instruments charted nearly 800,000 galaxies in the COSMOS field. The data reveal how dark matter - undetectable by light but dominant in mass - has shaped the universe's structure ...

A bright blue jet of plasma captured by the Hubble Space Telescope, the "cosmic blowtorch" in the image above has been traced 3,000 light years through space by the Event Horizon Telescope. Its source: the supermassive black hole at the heart of the ...

Astronomers used an a custom-built AI tool to scour millions of Hubble images, uncovering the universe's overlooked curiosities.

AnomalyMatch allows astronomers to process millions of Hubble images at record speed, revealing new galaxies and gravitational lenses ...