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With the help of ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT), astronomers have found six galaxies lying around a supermassive …

Catherine Neish is counting the days until her space launch. While the Western planetary geologist isn’t space-suiting up …

An international team of researchers has found that some of the oldest terrain on Venus, known as tesserae, …

Computer simulations are showing astrophysicists how massive clumps of gas within galaxies scatter some stars from their orbits, …

As harmful atmospheric carbon dioxide levels continue to increase, understanding the planet’s carbon balance is increasingly important. A …

Wolves today live and hunt in packs, which helps them take down large prey. But when did this …

Astronomers using the National Science Foundation’s Very Long Baseline Array (VLBA) have made the first direct geometric measurement …

When stars like our Sun die, all that remains is an exposed core — a white dwarf. A …

New composite images made by NASA’s Cassini spacecraft are the most detailed global infrared views ever produced of …

A new analysis of ancient genomes suggests that different branches of the human family tree interbred multiple times, …