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The Atacama Cosmology Telescope (ACT) team has captured the clearest images of the universe in its earliest stages—when it ...

From funny to fascinating to absolutely breathtaking, these are the best photos you’ll see all year—guaranteed.

Published as a cover story in Science on Friday, this cosmic atlas solves a decade-old challenge in astronomy by revealing ...

Astronomers have confirmed the existence of four planets orbiting a star less than 6 light-years away with help from some of ...

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The telescope will map the sky in 102 infrared colors, and the data it collects will shed light on the origins of the ...

Eventually, the dark umbra shadow appeared and slowly enveloped the moon, until we saw the distinctive color at totality when ...

I was planning to write this column about tonight’s (Thursday’s) lunar eclipse, but the storm dictates otherwise (I’m ...