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The Milky Way's 'thick disk' is 2 billion years older than scientists thought
Astronomers have found that part of the MIlky Way known as the thick disk is about 2 billion years older than expected, forming just 0.8 billion years after the Big Bang.
NASA caught a dead star spewing antimatter across space in dazzling new image
A relatively small pulsar (a dense, collapsed and rapidly-spinning star) belched out a giant filament containing matter and antimatter particles that streamed for trillions of miles.
The solar system: Facts about our cosmic neighborhood
Take a journey through our solar system, including a stop at the non-planet Pluto.
Three galaxies are tearing each other apart in stunning new Hubble telescope image
A Hubble Space Telescope image shows a stunning triple galaxy merger in the constellation Cancer.
Astronomers discover 1,000 strange 'filaments' of radio energy bursting from the galaxy's center
Researchers discovered nearly 1,000 mysterious 'filaments' of radio energy bursting from the Milky Way's center. Their origin remains unknown.
Astronomers detect powerful cosmic object unlike anything they've seen before
Researchers have detected a rare type of stellar object that blasts powerful radio waves toward Earth three times an hour. It may be a new class of dead star.
Shredded 'stellar streams' could lead to the Milky Way's missing dark matter
Astronomers mapped 12 stellar streams, which could lead to the Milky Way's missing dark matter.
Earth is at the center of a 1,000-light-year-wide 'Swiss cheese' bubble carved out by supernovas
A new study into the Local Bubble, a cosmic void surrounding Earth, has mapped out the star-forming regions on the bubble's surface and uncovered more information about its explosive birth.
