For the first time, scientists have built a digital version of the Milky Way that follows the motion of individual stars, not ...

That's the case for a galaxy described in a new paper by PhD student Sijia Cai of Tsinghua University's Department of Astronomy and their colleagues. They found a galaxy formed around 11 billion years ...

Astronomers are uncovering new ways to study the universe’s first stars, objects too distant and faint to observe directly, by examining the ancient 21-centimeter radio signal left behind by hydrogen ...

A new study casts doubt on the universe’s accelerating expansion, suggesting dark energy might be weakening over time.

"The discovery of this stream highlights how much is still unknown about the life histories of galaxies, how the hidden ...

A young child was declared clinically dead — but what they described after coming back left doctors speechless. They claimed ...

Astronomers have discovered an unusually bright and warm galaxy, MACS0416_Y1, dating back to just 600 million years after the ...

Imaging shows NGC 6789 building stars in near-total isolation, pushing scientists to rethink gas supply and formation in ...

The California Science Center has reached a major milestone in the development of the future Samuel Oschin Air and Space Center, with the installation of the first artifacts in the Kent Kresa Space ...

Astronomers know that mergers play a huge role in galaxy growth. Right now, the Milky Way is slowly consuming the Large and ...

Astrophysicist Thomas Bensby is an observational astronomer of stars and the director of graduate studies at Lund University’s department of physics. Thomas uses spectroscopy, a technique used to ...