Our solar system appears to be breaking the cosmic speed limit, casting fresh doubt on the Standard Model of Cosmology.

Centuries before other galaxies were known to exist, astronomers called them “spiral nebulas.” Today the defunct term still ...

In 1980, Stephen Hawking gave his first lecture as Lucasian Professor at the University of Cambridge. The lecture was called ...

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Astronomers have found a distant galaxy that’s building stars 180 times faster than our own Milky Way—offering a new clue to how galaxies grew so rapidly in the early universe. The galaxy, known as ...

String theory unifies all the forces of nature. Forces that seem very different, such as gravity and electricity, are deeply ...

The discovery indicates how galaxies could have grown quickly when the universe was very young, solving a long-standing ...

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

A century ago, a star in Andromeda named V1 launched a revolution in astronomy, revealing its true immensity and the origin ...

Astrophysicist Thomas Bensby is an observational astronomer of stars and the director of graduate studies at Lund ...

Monster black holes entered the cosmic scene soon after the Universe’s birth and grew rapidly, reaching millions or even ...