In the most inhospitable environments of the cosmos, the ingredients necessary for the emergence of life manage to form. Thanks to the James Webb Space Telescope, a team has scrutinized the core ...

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The James Webb Space Telescope has pushed the edge of the observable universe deeper into the past, revealing a galaxy whose ...

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Two hungry young galaxies that collided 11 billion years ago are rapidly forming a massive galaxy about 10 times the size of the Milky Way, according to UC Irvine-led research conducted on the W. M.

As a science communicator, I don’t think a week goes by without a press release hitting my inbox informing me of astronomers finding some new record-breaking object. Sometimes it’s the smallest planet ...

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(CNN) — Researchers have discovered a distant disc galaxy that has surprisingly similar characteristics to our own Milky Way, and it could change our understanding of how galaxies form. The galaxy, ...