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Leo P, a small galaxy and a distant neighbor of the Milky Way, is lighting the way for astronomers to better understand star formation and how a galaxy grows. Scientists have reported finding that Leo ...

Learn about the thermal light echo, observed by NASA, that causes intricate layers of interstellar gas and dust to emit an ...

Artificial intelligence (AI) once seemed like a fantastical construct of science fiction, enabling characters to deploy ...

A large international team of scientists has observed a phenomenon that astronomers didn't ever expect to see happen in real ...

A team of astronomers led by David Sand, a professor of astronomy at the University of Arizona Steward Observatory, has uncovered three faint and ...

The European Space Agency's Milky Way-mapper Gaia has completed the sky-scanning phase of its mission, racking up more than 3 ...

To see distant galaxies and fainter star clusters, time a trip around a new moon, when the night is at its darkest.

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A cosmic object spotted by the James Webb Space Telescope has flummoxed astronomers. Now, a research team has studied ...