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Researchers at the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument in Arizona, United States, release the largest 3D map of the universe featuring more than six million galaxies. Using this map, researchers are able to measure the acceleration of the expansion rate of the universe with unprecedented accuracy, detecting hints that the rate of expansion has been increasing over time.
2024-04-4

The Hubble Space Telescope observes the most distant single star ever. The star, named Earendel by astronomers, is 28 billion light-years away. It is the farthest detection of a star, dating back 900 million years after the Big Bang. This discovery surpasses Hubble's record from 2018, when it discovered a star that existed when the universe was roughly four billion years old. 
2022-03-30

The European Space Agency releases the Planck space observatory's first all-sky map of the cosmic microwave background, the most accurate ever created. It determines that the Universe is older than expected, at 13.82 billion years old.
2013-03-21

A group of astrobiologists including Chandra Wickramasinghe say that algae-like structures inside a Polonnaruwa meteorite, that fell on December 29, 2012, in Sri Lanka, are clear evidence of panspermia, the idea that life exists throughout the Universe.
2013-03-11

Huge-LQG, a large quasar group, the largest known structure in the Universe, is discovered by a team of astronomers using data from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey.
2013-01-11