A new model sheds light on the long-standing chemical mysteries found in globular clusters, the ancient archives of the universe. An international collaboration led by ICREA researcher Mark Gieles, fr ...

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The popular consensus among scientists is that the universe will continue expanding until the bitter end. A team of ...

A team led by an astronomer from the University of Maryland has, for the first time, detected large complex organic molecules frozen in ice beyond the Milky Way, providing new insight into the ...

We've been so engrossed in coverage of 3I/ATLAS that we nearly failed to note another comet currently in Earth's skies. This ...

If you’ve ever looked up at the night sky and marveled at the sheer number of stars, imagine being able to see the Milky Way ...

A fantastic new discovery has given astronomy an unexpected window into the formation of life-precursor molecules in an ...

A new theory claims dark matter and dark energy don’t exist — they’re just side effects of the universe’s changing forces. By ...

A team of astrophysicists has unveiled how colossal stars thousands of times more massive than the Sun shaped the earliest ...

Astronomers have long puzzled over how the oldest and most mysterious star clusters in the universe—known as globular ...

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