The existence of massive, elliptical galaxies in the early universe has puzzled astronomers for two decades. An international ...

New radio observations of molecular gas reveal how dozens of galaxies could have rapidly merged together in the early ...

The standard cosmological model (present-day version of "Big Bang," called Lambda-CDM) gives an age of the universe close to 13.8 billion years and much younger when we explore the universe at ...

Views of a massive galaxy cluster Abell 2256 have been captured by NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory, ESA’s XMM-Newton and three radio telescopes (LOFAR, the GMRT and the VLA). See a composite of all ...

Astronomers had warned that proximity of INNA facility to telescopes would have irreparably damaged observation ...

When you look up at the night sky, it seems deep black with bright stars scattered across it. That familiar view leads many ...

The University of Arizona is set to launch Galaxy Slam, a weeklong celebration of its legacy in space science and research.

Gas giants are massive worlds made mostly of hydrogen and helium. They lack solid surfaces, and in our solar system, Jupiter ...

Pulsars are a special class of neutron stars that spin very quickly on their axes, releasing pulses of radio waves. These ...

Here are six of NASA Hubble Space Telescope’s most iconic deep-space images, showcasing spiral galaxies, barred galaxies and ...

A pair of new studies suggest that key steps toward life’s chemistry may begin long before planets exist. Experiments simulating interstellar space show that simple amino acids can link into peptides, ...

India is set to establish two new telescopes and upgrade an existing one in Ladakh, marking a significant advancement for observational astronomy.