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"For the first time, we could trace the boundary between the gas residing in galaxies and the material contained within the ...

After hundreds of hours of observations, researchers captured a highly detailed image of a long filament of the "cosmic web" ...

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A police spokesman said the mother and the baby, a girl, had been brought to Bellevue Hospital in stable condition. Ms. Saint Pierre’s older sister, Stephania Saint Pierre, confirmed the mother ...

An ultra-deep image from the National Science Foundation's Dark Energy Camera reveals a wide variety of galaxies in the unusual Antlia Cluster. Why it's so special: Astronomers used a telescope in ...

Astronomers have investigated three ultra-faint dwarf galaxies that are located in a region of space far away from the ...

Learn More Galileo, a San Francisco-based startup, is betting that the future of artificial intelligence depends on trust. Today, the company launched a new product, Agentic Evaluations ...

Using the James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers have taken a detailed look at the supermassive black hole at the heart of ...