The "afterglow" of the universe is an important piece of evidence for the Big Bang. This background radiation also provides ...

NASA has discovered the ten oldest galaxies. These galaxies offer a glimpse into the early universe. GN-z11 is the oldest, ...

"We've always known that we need something to complete the puzzle, but we haven't really known what shape or form those missing pieces were going to be." ...

The largest sample of galaxy groups ever detected has been presented by a team of international astronomers using data from ...

"We want to understand how these galaxies are forming stars, how many stars they’re forming, and especially how the black ...

Researchers suggest the universe's background radiation has been overestimated, potentially challenging the standard model of ...

Along with a number of neighbouring galaxies — including our closest galactic neighbour, the Andromeda Galaxy — it forms what ...

Galaxies have long been classified into two types: blue ones, young and active, and red ones, old and inactive. Charles Steinhardt, a professor at the University of Missouri, proposes a third category ...

Ralf Klessen investigates the physical processes that governed the formation of the first generation of stars in the early ...

Astronomers have, for the first time, directly observed star clusters merging at the cores of dwarf galaxies—a process long ...