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Scientists have spent six years building a sophisticated simulation system that creates "pixel-perfect" data that mimics what ...

Astronomers have identified an unusual cosmic object that appears to be a galaxy in name only, composed almost entirely of dark matter and lacking the stars that typically define such systems.

By studying how light from eight distant quasars is gravitationally lensed as it propagates towards Earth, astronomers have ...

The Hubble Space Telescope is suddenly facing a much shorter future than many astronomers expected, with new modeling ...

The Hubble Space Telescope has spent more than three decades turning faint smudges into galaxies and rewriting textbooks, but ...

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Combining two kinds of quantum computing devices could be just the trick for taking better images of faint, faraway ...

Scientists at the University of Colorado Boulder may have solved a pressing mystery about the universe's gravitational wave ...

Astronomers have created a detailed forecast of where they expect to observe future stellar explosions in a nearby galaxy, ...