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Over the past decade, scientists have detected a puzzling phenomenon: radio pulses coming from within our Milky Way galaxy ...

Astronomers say they have traced a mysterious pulsing in the Milky Way to a surprising source: a dead star locked in a dance ...

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Using advanced artificial intelligence (AI) techniques, they trained a neural network to model the dust’s effect on starlight ...

Cherry Springs, isolated atop its mountain and surrounded by the 265,000-acre Susquehannock State Forest, remained a haven of darkness. In 2000, the park was designated as Pennsylvania’s first Dark ...

There is a supermassive black hole at the center of nearly every big galaxy—including ours, the Milky Way (it’s called ...

Voluminous clouds of cosmic dust permeate our galaxy, but only recently has software allowed detailed observations of the ...

The discovery of the dwarf galaxy Andromeda XXXV --located roughly 3 million light-years away and the smallest yet found in the Andromeda system -- is forcing astronomers to rethink how galaxies ...

During Thursday’s press conference, Putin reiterated the conditions Moscow would require for any peace agreement. These ...

A major discovery on the outskirts of Andromeda is shaking up our understanding of galactic evolution. Astronomers have found the dimmest and smallest satellite galaxy yet—Andromeda XXXV—forcing them ...