An international team of scientists has made a major breakthrough in understanding how and when the Sun formed about 4.6 ...

Three ultra-massive galaxies from the early universe, named "red monsters" show star formation happened faster than believed.

Primordial black holes may be exploding throughout the universe. If we can catch them in the act, it could pave the way to ...

The photograph of the Milky Way was taken by Oisin McDonnell, who is based in South Australia. He shared the image in a ...

According to a study published in Nature, an international team headed by the University of Geneva (UNIGE) discovered three ...

The Hubble Space Telescope has been used to study NGC 1052-DF2 — a galaxy that is lacking dark matter. Credit: NASA's Goddard ...

The galaxies, each as vast as the Milky Way, are baffling because most scientific models for galaxy evolution suggest ...

NASA selects two proposals for missions to observe X-ray and far-infrared wavelengths of light from space for additional ...

The Hubble Space Telescope has captured two tangled galaxies, whose interactions have caused knots to form in the ...

Scientists using observations from NASA's Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory have discovered, for the first time, the signal from ...

Astronomers have identified three ultra-massive galaxies -- nearly as massive as the Milky Way -- already in place within the first billion years after the Big Bang. This surprising discovery was made ...

Scientists using observations from NASA's Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory have discovered, for the first time, the signal from a pair of monster black holes disrupting a cloud of gas in the center of a ...