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

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

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

A California high school student has made an extraordinary contribution to astronomy by developing an artificial intelligence (AI) system that uncovered 1.5 million previously unknown objects in space ...

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

Some galaxies that should have ceased forming stars long ago are defying expectations. Anew theory proposes the existence of ...

The work of Paul Steinhardt, Princeton University’s Albert Einstein Professor of Science, professor of physics and astrophysical sciences, and co-founder of the Princeton Center for Theoretical ...

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

Ostriker is responsible for groundbreaking discoveries that forever changed the way astronomers think about what the universe is made of, including the existence of dark matter.

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

Dr. Darren DePoy and Dr. Jennifer Marshall reflect on career inspiration and the latest result from one of the projects they’ve been involved in since arriving at Texas A&M University nearly two ...

Did Copernicus borrow his cosmological theory from an earlier Muslim scientist? New research finds striking resemblance between Copernicus’s heliocentric treatise and a Muslim scientist’s cosmological ...