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A high schooler, Matteo Paz, won $250,000 for discovering 1.5 million new space objects with AI. Paz built an AI algorithm to search data from a NASA space telescope for objects such as black holes.

Scientists finally got a glimpse of what the universe looked like more than 13 billion years ago. And what they found could change everything we know about the dawn of the universe. "These objects are ...

One of the most mysterious objects in the universe just got a little less mysterious. But until this week, astronomers weren’t entirely sure what causes these extreme explosions in the first place.

An article out today in the journal Nature analyzes an early image from the James Webb Space Telescope to identify what may be six giant galaxies that formed in the early days of the universe. CU ...

Astronomers first discovered quasars, considered to be the brightest and most powerful objects in the universe, 60 years ago — but they didn't understand their origin. Now, scientists think they have ...

When Matteo Paz scored a high school internship at the California Institute of Technology, the scientists there gave him the daunting task of manually sorting reams of data from a NASA mission. It was ...