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A collection of 300 unusually bright objects in deep space may contain galaxies that formed in the early universe. These objects, captured in infrared images from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) ...

In a world that often measures itself in days, years, decades and centuries, a second seems insignificant. But a lot can happen in an instant. It takes a lightning bolt just 30 microseconds to strike ...

The Antennae galaxies are witnessed in the process of merging into a single elliptical galaxy.

What can galaxies smaller than our Milky Way Galaxy teach scientists about dark matter, which remains one of the most mysterious substances in the universe? This is what a recent study published in ...

Eleonora Troja receives funding from European Research Council. Billions of light years away in a remote part of the universe, two neutron stars – the ultradense remnants of dead stars – collided. The ...

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have spotted the most distant “jellyfish galaxy” ever seen — a cosmic oddity streaming long, tentacle-like trails of gas and newborn stars as it speeds ...