Scientists at the University of Colorado Boulder may have solved a pressing mystery about the universe's gravitational wave ...

In the very young universe, just a fraction of its current age, astronomers have stumbled on a set of objects that refuse to ...

When astronomers look deep into the early universe, the expectation is simple. You should see young galaxies still assembling ...

The discovery of thousands more galaxies with stars ringing their main disks could help astronomers study galactic evolution ...

Scientists have created what they say is the biggest simulation of our cosmos ever. The virtual universe has the mass of 300 billion galaxies, packed into a space with edges ten billion light years ...

Gas within the cluster, which existed merely 1.4 billion years after the Big Bang, is at least five times hotter than ...

Some galaxies meant to be spirals might've been smoothed-out into clumpy ellipticals. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. If you were ...

Black holes, some of the most captivating entities in the cosmos, possess an immense gravitational pull so strong that not even light can escape. The groundbreaking detection of gravitational waves in ...

We see countless stars and galaxies sparkling in the universe today, but how much matter is actually there? The question is simple enough — its answer, however, is turning out to be quite a ...

The Center for Computational Astrophysics at the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan (NAOJ) has introduced the HPE Cray XD2000 system as a new supercomputer to replace the current dedicated ...

Astronomers have created a detailed forecast of where they expect to observe future stellar explosions in a nearby galaxy, ...