According to new research, the earliest seeds of structures may have been laid down by gravitational waves sloshing around in ...

In the modern universe, supermassive black holes at the center of galaxies and their host galaxies grow together. But this ...

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

Astronomy, always seeking the deepest mysteries of the cosmos, has taken a significant new step with the discovery of three ultra-faint dwarf galaxies. This breakthrough, the result of collaboration ...

"This is how you solve the universe-breaking problem." ...

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

If we could go back 101 years, we would encounter a time when scientists still thought the Milky Way was the entirety of our ...

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

Found less than a billion years after the Big Bang, these massive objects are upending astronomers’ timeline for how early galaxies formed.

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

The galaxies are located in the constellation of Sculptor and have been given the names Sculptor A, B, and C. All their stars are old, indicating that they stopped making new ones a very long time ago ...

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