The James Webb Space Telescope has discovered Zhúlóng, a candidate for the most distant spiral galaxy in the universe. The perplexing Milky Way 'twin' dates to 1 billion years after the Big Bang, and ...

Gaia's data has revolutionized our understanding of the Milky Way's history, providing a three-dimensional map of nearly 2 billion objects, revealing a more violent and dynamic past than previously ...

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Ian Lauro Astro began his quest in Atlanta and ended 'in the middle of nowhere' in Oregon.