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Galaxy shapes can help identify wrinkles in space caused by the Big Bang
A new method to detect Baryon Acoustic Oscillations in the universe could help measure cosmic distances more accurately.
Our Milky Way galaxy was not always a spiral. Here's how it changed shape
A century-old mystery of how galaxies shift shapes has been solved by considering "survival of the fittest" collisions between cosmic titans also revealing the Milky Way was not always a spiral.
You'll travel nearly a trillion miles in your lifetime, even if you never leave home. Here's how.
Whether you're a frequent jet-setter or a couch potato, you travel much more than you think, thanks the motion of the Earth, sun, Milky Way galaxy and more.
Galaxy from the 'teenage' universe reveals its water map for the 1st time
A galaxy that existed less than 2 billion years after the Big Bang has revealed the distribution of its water content for the first time.
Extremely distant galaxy reveals stories of stars from their cradles to their graves
Located 13.2 billion light years away, a galaxy that existed just 600 million years after the Big Bang is home to one of the most distant sites of star birth, and death, ever seen.
Dark energy camera reveals galaxies caught in a cosmic 'tug of war' (photo)
Haley's Coronet is at war with its neighboring dwarf galaxy, and it's a gravitational struggle the latter is bound to lose.
Milky Way galaxy's spiral arms revealed in stunning detail by chemical mapping
"It has the potential to fully transform our view of the galaxy."
Unusual galaxy cluster is an island of tranquility in the chaotic early universe
Seen by NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory, this peaceful galaxy cluster existed when the universe was just 5.8 billion years old and brimming with chaos.
