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A vast filament of gas stretching across the cosmos may help solve the mystery of the Universe’s missing matter. Astronomers ...

The Andromeda galaxy is also known as Messier 31. It is a spiral galaxy located about 2.5 million light-years from Earth. On ...

Using gravitational microlensing, scientists have discovered a rare, large planet at the edge of the Milky Way. The planet is ...

A rare Jupiter-sized planet AT2021uey b was found 3,200 light-years away using microlensing, a method based on Einstein's ...

Advances and the arrival of new technologies have allowed astronomy, the science that studies celestial bodies and phenomena ...

Galaxies shine in a rainbow of emissions from gas, dust, and stars. Each of these building blocks emits light at specific ...

Two studies fill in gaps about the cosmos’s ordinary matter. One maps it all, even the “missing matter.” The other details one of its hiding spots.

Since its debut in 2021, the James Webb Space Telescope has dazzled viewers with its infrared images of galaxies, nebulae, ...

Researchers identified the likely planetary candidate’s infrared light after blocking out its host star’s overwhelming glare ...

We are entering a new era of cosmic exploration. The new Vera C Rubin Observatory in Chile will transform astronomy with its ...

The exoplanet, a planet beyond our solar system, has been dubbed TWA 7b after NASA's James Webb Space Telescope captured ...