In celebration of 35 years spent in orbit around Earth, the Hubble team has released a set of four new images showing the ...

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Possible dark galaxy discovered near Milky Way Emits no visible light, made of hydrogen and dark matter Detected using Green ...

Apr. 16, 2025 — Researchers have helped overturn the popular theory that water on Earth originated from asteroids bombarding its surface; Scientists have analyzed a ...

New research suggests that the largest cosmic structure is even bigger and closer to Earth than we knew. It goes against ...

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The halo is more extended that astronomers originally thought, and contains enough hydrogen gas to resolve the problem of the ...