Just over two years ago, observations from JWST had astronomers puzzled. Some galaxies were spotted that seemed to break our ...

Yale researchers among those who discovered three “ultra-massive” galaxies, which were formed shortly after the Big Bang and ...

New measurements show that the expansion rate of the universe is faster than can be explained by our current understanding of ...

In the years following the launch of NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers have tallied over 1 trillion galaxies in the universe. But only one galaxy stands out as the most important nearby ...

Galaxies like the Milky Way grow by merging with smaller galaxies over billions of years, unlike dwarf galaxies, which have ...

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For humans, the most important star in the universe is our sun. The second-most important star is nestled inside the ...

A rare group of aligned, star-birthing dwarf galaxies resemble a cosmic string of pearls. Astronomers have discovered a rare ...

Astronomers have struggled with finding ultra-faint dwarf galaxies far enough from the Milky Way's influence, making these ...

At Argonne National Laboratory, scientists have leveraged the Frontier supercomputer to create an unprecedented simulation of the universe, encompassing a span of 10 billion light years and ...

When we turn to “complex” extraterrestrial life or “intelligent” aliens, our results were 67.4 percent agreement, and 58.2 ...