The universe's first galaxies were hot messes, according to a recent study. During their younger days, they were wild, ...

The universe is expanding. That much is clearer. But it’s less clear whether this expansion is accelerating or slowing down. At the heart of this upheaval lies the cosmic yardstick astronomers have ...

The potential finds could be contributing to some of the faintest light we can see in the universe, say researchers.

Evidence suggests the universe’s expansion has started to slow, not accelerate. The results imply dark energy is weakening ...

An analysis of millions of galaxies found that the universe is barreling towards what is literally a much darker future.

The discovery of a superheated star factory that forms stars 180 times faster than our own Milky Way could help solve a ...

The ESA's Euclid space telescope has been in space for just over a year, investigating some of the deepest mysteries of the ...

New images of the infant universe captured by the Atacama Cosmology Telescope (ACT) are the most precise "baby pictures" to date of the cosmos' "first steps" toward forming the first stars and ...

Scientists led by a team from the University of Chicago recently released a study that mapped some of the largest known ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. White diamond symbols mark the locations of 20 of the 83 newfound young, low-mass galaxies ...

Study from Bielefeld finds major departure from the standard model. How fast and in what direction is our solar system moving through space? This question, though simple in appearance, plays a central ...