Astronomers have turned the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) into a time machine to peer back in cosmic ...

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Scientists believe the Milky Way contains up to 400 billion stars and at least as many planets. The largest galaxy known, IC 1101, has more than 100 trillion stars. Step outside on a clear night and ...

That means returning from the moon, the Artemis astronauts will be traveling at around 0.0037% the speed of light. Assuming a ...

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Bechtol and his fellow scientists hope they can learn more about the universe than all of scientific progress has allowed in ...

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Months after arriving in orbit thanks to a Falcon 9 rocket launch from Vandenberg Space Force Base, NASA’s newest space ...

Astronomers have shared a jaw-dropping view of what galaxies looked like in the early Universe. A study has peered back to when the Universe was only about one billion years old, which researchers say ...