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Astronomers Find 20 Very‑Metal‑Poor Stars Near Milky Way Disk and Propose a Lost Dwarf Galaxy

The team says shared chemical fingerprints and mixed orbits point to an early merger that could add a missing piece to the galaxy’s formation story.

JWST Survey Delivers Most Detailed Map of the Cosmic Web to Date

Cosmic Bounce Theory Suggests Black Hole 'Fossils' Could Account for Dark Matter

New COLIBRE Simulations Recreate Galaxy Growth and Support the Standard Model

ALMA Team Releases Largest Radio Map of the Milky Way’s Core

Wobbling Black Hole Jet in Spiral Galaxy Drives 20,000-Light-Year Gas Outflow

Hubble Confirms First Starless Dark-Matter Cloud, 'Cloud-9,' a Predicted RELHIC

Nature Study Finds Early Galaxy Cluster With Gas Five Times Hotter Than Models Allow

Astronomers Map 50-Million–Light-Year Rotating Cosmic Filament Nearby

Gaia Maps 'Great Wave' Rolling Through the Milky Way's Outer Disk

ASKAP Maps 185,000-Light-Year Hydrogen Bridge Between Two Dwarf Galaxies

36-Billion-Solar-Mass Black Hole Confirmed in Distant Cosmic Horseshoe Galaxy

Most Bright JWST Early-Universe Galaxy Candidates Are Dusty Impostors

James Webb Uncovers Massive Early Galaxies and a Fading Exoplanet Candidate

Most Distant Fast Radio Burst Localized to Dwarf Galaxy at z=2.148

Webb Reveals Binary Interaction in Planetary Nebula NGC 6072 and Detects 2,500 Early Galaxies

Hubble Reveals Andromeda's Dwarf Galaxies Defy Star Formation Expectations

Astronomers Identify Most Distant Fully-Formed Spiral Galaxy, Zhúlóng

James Webb Telescope Challenges Planet Formation and Early Universe Models

Webb Telescope Uncovers Massive Early Universe Galaxies