"If our solar system is indeed moving this fast, we need to question fundamental assumptions about the large-scale structure ...

A galaxy in a practically empty area of the universe seems to be impossibly forming stars, and new observations have only deepened the puzzle ...

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

In a significant stride for cosmic evolution studies, astronomers have unveiled a galaxy that is churning out stars at a ...

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

A groundbreaking discovery has shed new light on star formation in the early universe, revealing a galaxy that forms stars at ...

How fast and in which direction is our solar system moving through the universe? This seemingly simple question is one of the ...

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

Board games, both contemporary and vintage, promise family entertainment for those Florida afternoons when sudden thunderstorms make the beach less appealing. Stuffed animals of every species – ...

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 ...