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How do you find a galaxy that never formed? The standard cosmological model predicts the existence of “failed” galaxies — clumps of dark matter that captured gas but never birthed a star. Because they ...

Scientists have created the highest resolution map of the dark matter that threads through the universe—showing its influence ...

Find out where to spot The North Star aka Polaris in the night sky. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech ...

A distant Sun-like star suddenly went dark for months, stunning astronomers who quickly realized something massive was ...

The sheer scale of Carrazco-Gaxiola’s survey, titled “An All-Sky Spectroscopic Reconnaissance of More Than 2,100 K Dwarfs Within 40 Parsecs Using High-Resolution Spectra,” is what sets it apart.

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The James Webb Space Telescope is finding unexpectedly many "dead" galaxies in the early universe where no stars are forming. A culprit has now been found.

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New observations from the James Webb Space Telescope have revealed unexpected features in the early universe, including ...

On Jan. 11, 2026, I watched anxiously at the tightly controlled Vandenberg Space Force Base in California as an awe-inspiring ...