An intriguing new study suggests that the universe may rotate once every 500 billion years. If correct, the authors believe ...

The universe doesn't come with an instruction manual—but if it did, University of Missouri Assistant Professor Charles ...

Astronomers may have found the long-missing half of the universe's regular matter—and it appears to have been right under our ...

A new study in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society by researchers including István Szapudi of the University of ...

JADES-GS-z13-1-LA is a young galaxy shining just 330 million years after the Big Bang, signaling it's part of a process called reionization.

Astronomers tallying up all the normal matter—stars, galaxies and gas—in the universe today have come up embarrassingly short ...

An international team led by the University of Geneva (UNIGE) has discovered the most distant spiral galaxy candidate known ...

Dark matter is hypothesized to outweigh "ordinary matter" in the universe by a factor of five. That means all the stuff we ...

Jonathan McDowell is retiring from studying the universe. But he’s ramping up efforts to chronicle humanity’s exploration of ...

The most distant and earliest "dead" massive galaxy ever seen shows some galaxies lived fast and died young shortly after the ...

We named this galaxy Zhúlóng, meaning ‘Torch Dragon’ in Chinese mythology.