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A mysterious glow of gamma rays at the center of the Milky Way has long hinted at dark matter, but the lack of similar signals in smaller dwarf galaxies has cast doubt on that idea. Now, researchers ...

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This early galaxy hosts as much as 30% of the oxygen of a fully developed, modern-day one. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works.

Every census has a blind spot. For decades, astronomers building their picture of the early universe couldn’t quite account for an entire class of galaxies, wrapped in thick blankets of cosmic dust, ...

Scientists have released a new study that catalogues the universe by mapping huge clusters of galaxies. These clusters are some of the largest known objects in the universe — and they can help ...

The Fermi Paradox, first devised by physicist Enrico Fermi in the 1950s, asks why we haven’t detected alien civilization yet, despite the vast universe teeming with countless potentially habitable ...

Most messages are press releases about astronomical discoveries—okay, scratch that; most of them are spam, but science announcements are an easy second place. But I also get questions from readers ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Chris Impey, University of Arizona (THE CONVERSATION) If you look across space with a ...