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U-M astronomers are helping study a fast-moving, ancient, and massive comet that formed beyond our galaxy. A group of ...
Scientists have developed a new and improved method to better understand "steam world" exoplanets, a move that could refocus the search for life.
The post Oldest Galaxy That Formed 280 million Years After The Big Bang Has Been Identified And Proves Yet Again How ...
This is known as gravitational lensing. The Cosmic Grapes were made 100 times brighter and larger than they would otherwise ...
Aliens may have been closer to Earth than first thought. New research from NASA reveals that Ceres, the dwarf planet in the ...
The exoplanet TRAPPIST-1 d intrigues astronomers looking for possibly habitable worlds beyond our solar system because it is ...
In the past decade, the European Space Agency's Gaia space telescope has revealed the nature, history, and behavior of ...
Looking out beyond our galaxy to tiny plots of sky that appeared to be empty, deep-field images by the Hubble and James Webb Space Telescopes revealed many thousands of new galaxies stretching ...
He then takes us beyond the solar system to nearby stars, which may soon be reached by nanoships traveling on laser beams at near the speed of light. Finally, he brings us beyond our galaxy, and even ...