By Will Dunham WASHINGTON, Dec 8 (Reuters) - Scientists have observed the largest-known rotating structure in the cosmos - a ...

From your place inside the Milky Way, you are living within a galaxy that keeps a detailed chemical diary. Every star holds ...

The filament is a part of the vast cosmic web composed primarily of dark matter and interspersed with lighter layers of ...

“You build these machines not to confirm the paradigm but to break it,” European Space Agency senior science and exploration adviser Mark McCaughrean said. This logic underlies the iconoclastic ...

Astronomers from several nations found fourteen hydrogen-rich galaxies placed along a narrow stretch over 5.5 million ...

NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory has revealed stunning cosmic structures within galaxy clusters, like bubbles and waves, formed by superheated gas and black hole activity. A new technique, ...

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Galaxies are clouds of stars that range in both size and composition. Some contain hundreds of millions of stars while the largest galaxies can contain trillions of stars. And while it’s not entirely ...

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While nearly all massive galaxies possess central black holes, the presence of such black holes in dwarf galaxies remains an open question, with previous estimates identifying them in only 0.5% of ...

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