The research suggests that the universe has become “messier and more complicated” over time, with a less clumpy distribution of matter.

Astronomer Vishwangi Shah of McGill University notes that magnetars are born from massive stars, which need young, active galaxies to ... burst emerged from Messier 81’s outskirts, a location ...

Galaxies are astronomical objects composed of billions or even trillions of stars. Our Earth and solar system are just a tiny ...

Rare ultra-faint dwarf galaxies beyond the influence of other galaxies show evidence that star formation was stifled long ago ...

The Vera C. Rubin Observatory is set to revolutionize our understanding of the cosmos by detecting millions of exploding stars — Type Ia supernovae — over the next decade. These brilliant explosions ...

Matter in intergalactic space is distributed in a vast network of interconnected filamentary structures, collectively referred to as the cosmic web. With hundreds of hours of observations, an ...

In the 1920s, astronomers thought that the Milky Way was the entire universe. Hubble's discovery revealed a much bigger ...

Kenough, one of the brightest galaxies, shines 11.6 million light-years away from Earth in the constellation Ursa Major. The Black Eye Galaxy, also known as Messier 64, shines with a dark band of ...

NASA prepares to launch SPHEREx, a groundbreaking telescope surpassing James Webb's capabilities in certain aspects. With a ...

NASA is launching a new space telescope more powerful than its James Webb counterpart which will be able to shed more light ...

To truly understand our place in the universe, we must first comprehend the concept of scale. It is only through understanding the relative sizes of the entities around us that we can appreciate ...