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A mysterious object has been detected at the edge of the universe, sparking curiosity and debate within the scientific community. As researchers scramble to understand its origins and purpose, ...

Space is dark, which makes finding bright things like stars pretty darn easy. It also makes it possible for high-powered telescopes to spot things that are very, very far away, and researchers now ...

What was the universe like in the first few hundreds of millions of years after it came into existence? How did the first stars and galaxies form? Those are questions that astronomers now have a ...

Astronomers have been mapping vast cosmic structures for decades, from galaxy clusters to immense superclusters. But now, researchers have identified what they say is officially the largest known ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Astronomers have ...

You’d assume that the brightest object in the known universe would be a pretty easy thing to discover, but astronomers have only just spotted it. This overlooked show-off is a supermassive black hole ...

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CINCINNATI (WKRC) - Astronomers have found the largest known object in the universe, and its over 1 billion lightyears long and hundreds of thousands times bigger than the Milky Way. Although space is ...

Editor's Note: This story was updated at 5:10 p.m. E.T. There's nothing like staring up at the night sky to make you feel small. But when looking out into the cosmos, you might also wonder: What is ...