In research published today, Australian scientists have taken a critical step towards understanding why different types of galaxies exist throughout the universe. The research, made possible by ...

How galaxies assemble their stars and grow over billions of years remains one of the central questions in astronomy. Recent ...

An array of 350 radio telescopes in the Karoo desert of South Africa is getting closer to detecting the “cosmic dawn” — the era after the Big Bang when stars first ignited and galaxies began to bloom.

Up until recently, astronomy was reliant entirely on electromagnetic waves. While that changed with the confirmation of gravitational waves in 2016, astronomers had developed fundamental frameworks in ...

The James Webb Space Telescope’s first picture released to the public showed off thousands of galaxies. At first glance, the pinpoints of light shining in the blackness of space look like little stars ...

Understanding how galaxies grow has long stood as one of astronomy’s core challenges. Over time, scientists have gathered ...

WASHINGTON, Nov 29 (Reuters) - Our sun and other stars form when a dense clump of interstellar gas and dust collapses under its own gravitational pull. Once a star is born at the center of such a ...

The mission’s first large set of survey data is a treasure trove for clues about the history of the universe. Reading time 2 minutes The Euclid space telescope is on a mission to map more than one ...

Galaxy clusters are the most massive objects in the universe held together by gravity, containing up to several thousand ...

The Fermi Paradox, first devised by physicist Enrico Fermi in the 1950s, asks why we haven’t detected alien civilization yet, despite the vast universe teeming with countless potentially habitable ...

New Chandra X-ray study finds many dwarf galaxies may not host central massive black holes, challenging long-held assumptions about galaxy formation and black hole origins ...