A team of 48 astronomers from 14 countries, led by the University of Massachusetts Amherst, has discovered a population of ...

Astronomers may finally understand why planets orbiting two suns, the real-world equivalents of the "Star Wars" planet ...

How space telescopes capture distant galaxies using infrared imaging, precision optics, and astronomy technology beyond Earth's atmosphere.

Four galaxies crowd the center of a collapsing structure 1.4 billion years after the Big Bang. Each one is churning out stars at a pace that defies comparison with the present-day universe. Around ...

The studied galaxy existed about 930 million years ago after the Big Bang. Even though this might sound like a long time ago, in universe terms this is not ...

A flat plane of dark matter beyond the Local Group may explain why nearby galaxies move away from us instead of falling ...

Astronomers tracked a star in Andromeda as it dimmed and vanished without the usual fiery explosion, offering rare clues to ...

Scientists hope to probe the nature of general relativity through a possible pulsar found in the center of the Milky Way, ...

In the very young universe, just a fraction of its current age, astronomers have stumbled on a set of objects that refuse to behave the way galaxies are supposed to. Compact, brilliant and oddly ...

Saul Hernandez, a New Mexico State University senior studying physics and linguistics with a minor in astronomy, has turned ...

Galaxy dynamics are confronted with one of the deepest problems of modern physics: the dark matter problem. The motions of stars and gas observed exceed what can be explained by the mass visible in ...

Galaxies are massive, far exceeding the size of the one depicted in the movie “Men in Black.” These celestial bodies span ...