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The universe suddenly looks a lot more crowded, thanks to a deep-sky census assembled from surveys taken by NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope and other observatories. Astronomers came to the surprising ...

Observations by the James Webb Space Telescope hint at an excess of "UB-bright" galaxies in the first 400 million years after ...

Our search for exoplanets is focused on Milky Way stars. It's been successful, with more than 6,000 detected so far.

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Look up at the sky on a clear night, and you’ll see thousands of stars – about 6,000 or so. But that’s only a tiny fraction of all the stars out there. The rest are too far away for us to see them.

The epoch of reionization, a period following the cosmic dark ages, marks the transition of the universe's predominantly neutral hydrogen gas to its currently ionized state, driven by the ionizing ...

Scientists estimate over 100 billion galaxies in the universe, each unique in shape and size, revealing the vastness of cosmic creation.

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. The Milky Way is just a speck in a universe filled with an untold number of galaxies. But if we ...