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

The standard cosmological model (present-day version of "Big Bang," called Lambda-CDM) gives an age of the universe close to ...

JWST has revealed a strange early universe filled with ultra-bright “blue monster” galaxies, mysterious “little red dots,” ...

Mysterious blasts of radio waves from across the universe called fast radio bursts help astronomers catalog matter. ESO/M. Kornmesser, CC BY-SA If you look across space with a telescope, you’ll see ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In a few billion years, the Milky Way and Andromeda, the nearest spiral galaxy, might collide. Future observers could be treated ...

The sharpest dark matter map ever reveals the invisible cosmic scaffolding that built galaxies, stars, and ultimately life itself.

Astronomers have produced the most detailed map yet of dark matter, revealing the invisible framework that shaped the Universe long before stars and galaxies formed. Using powerful new observations ...

Scientists have created the highest resolution map of the dark matter that threads through the universe—showing its influence on the formation of stars, galaxies and planets.

Did you know? The official average colour of the universe is known as “Cosmic latte”, a warm, creamy beige born from light ...

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

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Whether the universe will “end” at all is not certain, but all evidence suggests it ...