Just in time for Christmas, a vast star-forming region shaped like a Christmas tree is lighting up space 2,700 light-years from Earth.

In a remote stretch of Egyptian desert, a set of huge carved symbols has revived one of humanity’s oldest questions: were our ...

For more than a century, a cluster of alabaster jars from the burial of Tutankhamun sat in museum cases as some of the most puzzling objects from the boy king’s tomb. Now a new wave of scientific ...

But today, this once-bustling frontier town has transformed into one of South Dakota’s most fascinating ghost towns, a place where the wind whistles through abandoned buildings and tumbleweeds seem to ...

An international team of astronomers led by Canadian researchers has found something the universe wasn't supposed to have: a ...

The “Seven Sisters” of the Pleiades are part of a much larger complex that can help reveal our galaxy’s deep history ...

Astronomers have used the Keck Observatory's DEIMOS multi-object spectrograph to observe a nearby galaxy cluster designated ...

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The Champagne Cluster is a rare and beautiful example of two galaxy clusters smashing together. Its festive name comes from ...

A bubbly-looking galaxy smashup called the Champagne Cluster offers a rare glimpse into cosmic collisions—and the hidden behavior of dark matter. The Champagne Cluster is a dramatic cosmic system ...

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