By looking ever further back in time, the James Webb Space Telescope is at last revealing the first galaxies – and a very ...

In 1920, astronomers Harlow Shapley and Heber Curtis held a Great Debate. Shapley argued that the spiral nebulae were small ...

New research from the SAGA Survey, comparing the Milky Way with 101 similar galaxies, unveils how our galaxy differs ...

How black holes grow to monstrous scales is one of astronomy's prevailing enigmas. A new record-breaking dataset, which ...

"For the first time, we could trace the boundary between the gas residing in galaxies and the material contained within the ...

In a significant astronomical discovery, researchers found three ultra-faint dwarf galaxies, offering new insights into the ...

Researchers at MSU found that H₃⁺ can form in unexpected ways. They studied molecules hit by high-energy light.

An international team of researchers has found dark matter dominating the halos of two supermassive black holes in galaxies ...

Astronomers have discovered that many infant stars born in stellar nurseries of the early universe may have preferred "fluffy ...

Around 13.7 billion years ago, something collapsed. It fell outward into the nothingness that stretched in every direction, ...

Neutrinos are ghostly subatomic particles that can travel in a straight line for billions of light-years, passing unhindered ...

After hundreds of hours of observations, researchers captured a highly detailed image of a long filament of the "cosmic web" ...