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Roughly 400,000 years after the Big Bang, the universe cooled just enough to allow photons to escape from the primordial ...

A 3D map of our cosmic neighborhood has revealed hot and cold regions as well as an "escape tunnel" from our local bubble.

The same can't be said of "space weather" from solar events, which can seriously affect satellites and even passenger planes.

Astronomers have identified three ultra-massive galaxies -- nearly as massive as the Milky Way -- already in place within the first billion years after the Big Bang. This surprising discovery was made ...

The galaxies, each as vast as the Milky Way, are baffling because most scientific models for galaxy evolution suggest ...

SpaceX launched a Falcon 9 rocket Thursday morning from Florida’s Space Coast. Watch Falcon 9 launch 24 @Starlink satellites ...