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Astronomers have uncovered a vast cloud of energetic particles surrounding one of the most distant galaxy clusters ever observed, marking a major step forward in understanding the hidden forces that ...

A team of astronomers believe they may have found the most "pristine" star in the universe to date. According to the team, ...

Members of the Case Western Reserve University community are invited to hear from Kelsey Johnson, professor of astronomy and director of the Echols Scholars Program at the University of Virginia, at ...

Scientists have found a remarkably small yet bright object from the early universe that doesn’t make sense in our existing models of how stars and galaxies formed, even our own Milky Way. That means ...

Not all stars are created equally. Astronomers believe that the first stars to form after the Big Bang were mostly made of ...

According to the equations that govern black holes, the larger one of these cosmic behemoths is the lower its average density ...

By listening for ghostly radio echoes from the early Universe, scientists believe future Moon missions could determine what ...

Quantum mechanics is everywhere, from powering the phone you’re reading this on to the galaxies that are formed with colliding stars, everything has to be understood at a molecular level that is based ...

What if the universe remembers? A bold new framework proposes that spacetime acts as a quantum memory. For over a hundred ...

The fate of the cosmos may be a bit different than previously expected. For years, scientists have talked about how the universe is always expanding — constantly moving outward, never stopping.