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Astronomers have discovered a vast, dense cluster of massive galaxies just 1 billion years after the Big Bang, each forming ...

"This is a structure we've never seen before, so it could be a new class of dark object." ...

New observations from the James Webb Space Telescope have revealed unexpected features in the early universe, including ...

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There may not be as nearly as many small galaxies in the early universe as astronomers predict there should be, which has big ...

Astronomers announced the discovery of a starless cloud of hydrogen gas, a pristine relic of the cosmos that is almost as old as time itself.

A paper links dark stars to Webb telescope puzzles involving bright sources, dust-free galaxies, and early black holes.

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From your place inside the Milky Way, you are living within a galaxy that keeps a detailed chemical diary. Every star holds clues about when it formed and what the galaxy was like at the time. Over ...

Using the Subaru Telescope's wide-field camera, astronomers have discovered a previously unknown structure surrounding a tiny ...

Dark stars are some of the most exciting astrophysical objects to possibly exist, as their study would allow for a determination of the physical properties of the dark matter particle, and thus ...