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Even before the first stars lit up the Universe, the Cosmos was not the cold place most researchers once imagined. New ...

New observations from the James Webb Space Telescope hint that the universe’s first stars might not have been ordinary fusion ...

A discovery of binary stars could be the first step in building a more complete picture of how our galaxy formed, according ...

Astrophysicists have presumed for nearly a century that the universe will just keep expanding for all eternity, driven by an ...

Aug. 1 is Women Astronomers Day, highlighting the historical achievements of women in astronomy. The designation honors the birthdate, in 1818, of Maria Mitchell, the first American woman astronomer ...

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