The standard cosmological model (present-day version of "Big Bang," called Lambda-CDM) gives an age of the universe close to ...
The existence of massive, elliptical galaxies in the early universe has puzzled astronomers for two decades. An international ...
You might think galaxies can’t ever find each other in our runaway cosmos, but it turns out gravity can sometimes overcome ...
When you look up at the night sky, it seems deep black with bright stars scattered across it. That familiar view leads many ...
WASHINGTON, Jan 30 (Reuters) - Observations by NASA's James Webb Space Telescope and Chandra X-ray Observatory are providing ...
Astronomers have released the most ambitious cosmic map assembled so far, confirming that matter in the Universe is less ...
Most of the universe is slipping away from the Milky Way, carried outward as space itself expands. Yet one giant neighbor is bucking the trend, racing straight at us while almost every other major ...
The sharpest dark matter map ever reveals the invisible cosmic scaffolding that built galaxies, stars, and ultimately life itself.
The young galaxy cluster existed about 12.8 billion years ago and has an estimated mass 20 trillion times that of the sun ...
Scientists are now certain that James Webb will break every such record until the earliest observable light is eventually ...
NASA’s Hubble and Spitzer space telescopes, with a boost from a natural “zoom lens,” have uncovered what may be one of the youngest and brightest galaxies ever seen in the middle of the cosmic “dark ...
Mysterious blasts of radio waves from across the universe called fast radio bursts help astronomers catalog matter. ESO/M. Kornmesser, CC BY-SA Chris Impey, University of Arizona If you look across ...