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 ...

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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 ...

Astronomers have uncovered a previously unknown, extreme kind of star factory by taking the temperature of a distant galaxy ...

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

In a finding that could change how scientists understand the spread of life's ingredients across space, astronomers have ...

Six Durham researchers have earned a place on one of the world's most respected research rankings. Professors Carlos Frenk, ...

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 ...