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Astronomers tallying up all the normal matter—stars, galaxies and gas—in the universe today have come up embarrassingly short of the total matter produced in the Big Bang 13.6 billion years ago. In ...

The mysteries of a strange era in the universe's history may have been uncovered by scientists. This "epoch of reionization" was a period in the early universe's history when the first stars and ...

Astrophotographer Miguel Claro captured a stunning view of the Lion Nebula in the Cepehus constellation, revealing colorful clouds of ionized hydrogen gas. When you purchase through links on our site, ...

Astronomers explore an area of space packed with stars—and mysteries The full view of the James Webb Space Telescope’s NIRCam (Near-Infrared Camera) instrument reveals a 50 light-years-wide portion of ...

For millions of years following the Big Bang, after the universe’s roiling soup of particles had cooled, the cosmos was a dark and boring place. There were no stars to make light. No familiar swirls ...