"The knowledge of these will ultimately help us understand the formation of the first stars and planets and how our own Milky ...

Researchers from the University of Minnesota Twin Cities and Université Paris-Saclay have reopened one of cosmology’s oldest ...

In these simulations, the researchers began with a massive primordial black hole seed of about 50 million times the Sun’s mass, then followed how gas flowed into it, how stars formed nearby, and how ...

WASHINGTON — For the first time ever, astronomers have confirmed the existence of a "failed galaxy," a massive, starless ...

Astronomers spotted nine galaxies with characteristics that have never been seen as a collection before. It's possible this ...

Using the Subaru Telescope's wide-field camera, astronomers have discovered a previously unknown structure surrounding a tiny ...

MeerKAT radio telescope discovers 49 hidden galaxies in less than three hours, revealing how much of the nearby universe ...

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 believe this barred spiral galaxy could be the oldest example of its kind ever observed. Research led by Daniel ...

An inexplicably hot, fast-growing cluster of galaxies in the early universe has scientists questioning theories of galactic ...

Astronomers have long puzzled over how some massive galaxies stop forming stars and remain dormant for billions of years—even ...

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