Calculating the Journey The universe is vast, and it’s growing bigger by the second. Thanks to cosmic expansion, the distance to the edge of the observable universe is approximately 46.5 billion light ...

The James Webb Space Telescope is pushing the boundaries of our understanding of the universe, capturing galaxies formed just ...

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The book, Postcards from the Edge of the Universe, was launched today at the European Week of Astronomy and Space Science in Lisbon, Portugal. A legacy of the International Year of Astronomy 2009 ...

Astronomers reanalyzed the chemical composition of three stars in the Milky Way's halo and found that they are between 12 and 13 billion years old. They may have also been stolen from other galaxies.