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Stunning image of Andromeda galaxy takes top astronomy photography prize of 2023 (gallery)
The Royal Observatory of Greenwich's annual contest draws more than 4,000 submissions, and the winning images from this year's categories are stunning.
Bubble of galaxies spanning 1 billion light-years could be a fossil of the Big Bang
An immense bubble of galaxies, one billion light years wide and located 820 million light-years away, could be fossilized remains of the Big Bang.
Earliest magnetic galaxy ever detected offers clues about Milky Way history
The magnetic field is a thousand times weaker than Earth’s, but is spread out across 16,000 light years.
Galaxy shapes can help identify wrinkles in space caused by the Big Bang
A new method to detect Baryon Acoustic Oscillations in the universe could help measure cosmic distances more accurately.
Our Milky Way galaxy was not always a spiral. Here's how it changed shape
A century-old mystery of how galaxies shift shapes has been solved by considering "survival of the fittest" collisions between cosmic titans also revealing the Milky Way was not always a spiral.
You'll travel nearly a trillion miles in your lifetime, even if you never leave home. Here's how.
Whether you're a frequent jet-setter or a couch potato, you travel much more than you think, thanks the motion of the Earth, sun, Milky Way galaxy and more.
Galaxy from the 'teenage' universe reveals its water map for the 1st time
A galaxy that existed less than 2 billion years after the Big Bang has revealed the distribution of its water content for the first time.
Extremely distant galaxy reveals stories of stars from their cradles to their graves
Located 13.2 billion light years away, a galaxy that existed just 600 million years after the Big Bang is home to one of the most distant sites of star birth, and death, ever seen.
