Revolutionary technique allows astronomers to capture incredibly high-resolution images of distant galaxies and supermassive black holes.

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NASA said the system is thought to be moving at least 1.2 million miler per hour, nearly twice as fast as our solar system.

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New findings explain the Phoenix cluster's mysterious starburst. Data confirm the cluster is actively cooling and able to generate a huge amount of stellar fuel on its own.

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Angel’s Venture has been torn apart by the gravitational pull of the Meridia Singularity. This is an incalculable loss.

In 2011, a project that surveyed the Milky Way galaxy for exoplanets — which are planets beyond our solar system — spotted an ...

Where is all the water that may form oceans on distant planets and moons? The SPHEREx astrophysics mission will search the ...

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