Voluminous clouds of cosmic dust permeate our galaxy, but only recently has software allowed detailed observations of the stuff at scale.

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The discovery of the dwarf galaxy Andromeda XXXV --located roughly 3 million light-years away and the smallest yet found in the Andromeda system -- is forcing astronomers to rethink how galaxies ...

This is the fourth comet Gröller has discovered, but given its extraordinary distance, it was the most exciting find, he says ...

The U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL), in partnership with NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC), has developed ...

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The objects around the ringed planet are tiny, but some of them may have formed relatively recently in the solar system’s ...

NASA’s SPHEREx mission has successfully communicated with Earth, marking the start of an ambitious journey to map the cosmos.

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An international team of astronomers working with the Canada France Hawaii Telescope have discovered a whopping 128 more ...