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Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), an international team of astronomers has observed an elliptical galaxy known as ...

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Understanding how the Milky Way formed means looking far beyond the bright spiral you see in the night sky. A new study led ...

By studying tiny distortions in the shapes of distant galaxies, scientists mapped dark matter and dark energy across one of the largest sky surveys ever assembled. Their results back the standard ...

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A year-end recap of 2025 in space, covering NASA leadership changes, space policy, major missions, scientific discoveries and key events across orbit and beyond.

Humanity has sent into space everything from lightsabers and Tesla Roadsters to golden records and entire digital genetic ...