Astronomers have confirmed the earliest barred spiral galaxy in the universe, a Milky-Way-like structure that existed just 2 ...
Astronomers have identified one of the largest rotating structures ever observed, a colossal cosmic filament stretching 50 ...
"The knowledge of these will ultimately help us understand the formation of the first stars and planets and how our own Milky ...
Three billion years after the Big Bang, a massive galaxy already looked like it had run out of time. It spun in a calm, ...
Astronomers have discovered a vast, dense cluster of massive galaxies just 1 billion years after the Big Bang, each forming ...
Hubble Finds a 'Failed Galaxy' 14 Million Light-Years Away Ruled by Dark Matter ...
Humans are captivated by the idea of finding life elsewhere in the universe – and even more by the idea that life, if found, might resemble the complex, animal life here on Earth. One of the easiest ...
"It points to a slow starvation rather than a single dramatic death blow." ...
Researchers at the University of British Columbia and Dalhousie University have found a young galaxy cluster that appears far ...
Astronomers have spotted one of the oldest "dead" galaxies yet identified, and found that a growing supermassive black hole ...