(CNN) — Astronomers have for the first time spotted two galaxies in the throes of a deep-space “duel.” Using combined observations from ground-based telescopes over nearly four years, the researchers ...

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Telescopes from the CLASS project in Chile detect faint microwave signals from the early universe. (Deniz Valle and Jullianna Couto/Johns Hopkins University) (CN) — High in Chile’s Andes Mountains, ...

Cosmic Watch app, the abstract concept of time becomes a tangible experience on any mobile phone and tablet. This technical innovation made in Switzerland leads the astronomical clock into the digital ...

Long before galaxies sparkled in the sky or stars took shape, invisible forces stirred in the early Universe. One of those forces—magnetism—emerged in ways scientists are only now beginning to ...

Astronomers call it the cosmic dawn, and it’s nearly as poetic as it sounds. This is the time, a few hundred million years after the Big Bang, when the first stars and galaxies burst into existence, ...

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