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Astrophotographer Miguel Claro captured a colorful portrait of the Andromeda Galaxy from the Dark Sky Alqueva Observatory in ...

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A new University of Kansas survey of distant galaxies using the James Webb Space Telescope reveals never-before-seen star ...

Ladi Svoboda told Snopes that the photo was "real but artistically interpreted," while noting that similar shots were ...

Using data from space telescopes and other instruments, astronomers, cosmologists, and astrophysicists are able to deduce and ...

The Andromeda Galaxy's family of dwarfs are an enigma. First it was the unusual flat plane around which more than half of ...

An astonishing discovery from the James Webb Space Telescope may rewrite our understanding of the Universe’s early years. A ...

A team of astronomers announced on April 16, 2025, that in the process of studying a planet around another star, they had ...

Earth Day is about celebrating our own "pale blue dot," but sometimes stargazing can help us appreciate what is right in front of us even more. Plus, looking up at the night sky is the perfect ...

Astronomers have found more ORCs in the years since those initial discoveries, and some of them also appear to have a galaxy ...