A newly-detected spinning galaxy filament is reshaping our understanding of cosmic structure, gas flows, and the origins of ...

A spiral galaxy, shaped much like our Milky Way, has been found in an era when astronomers believed such well-formed galaxies ...

For much of the twentieth century, scientists expected the expanding universe to slow over time. The opposite turned out to be true. Space is stretching faster today than in the past, and the precise ...

Jacqueline Antwi-Danso is in the Department of Astronomy & Astrophysics, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario M5S 3H4, Canada. Before the launch of JWST, even massive quenched galaxies were ...

It’s always amazing, and more than a little humbling, when the universe reminds us that our “common sense” is provincial, ...

Could we turn our solar system into a spaceship and drive the Sun around the galaxy? Interstellar travel is horrible and deadly. Much safer to stay on here Earth with our gloriously habitable ...

The history of how stars and galaxies came to be and evolved into the present day remains among the most challenging astrophysical questions to solve yet, but new research brings us closer to ...

The galaxy, J1135, is located 12 billion light-years away and is seen as it was less than 2 billion years after the Big Bang. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...

China is charting an ambitious course for space exploration over the next decade, with new missions outlined as part of its ...

Eros appears to buzz the Andromeda Galaxy, courtesy of a livestream hosted by the Virtual Telescope Institute in partnership ...