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

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 ...

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

NASA has revealed the first full-color images from the James Webb Space Telescope — and they are almost impossible to process. These pictures don’t just show distant galaxies; they show time itself, ...

Deep inside a nearby galaxy, a black hole sits behind a thick wall of dust. Almost all its light gets trapped.

A recent investigation, conducted by the Center for Astrobiology (CAB) and CSIC-INTA, utilizing modeling techniques developed at the University of Oxford, has revealed an extraordinary abundance of ...

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) have discovered galaxies colliding in the early universe, revealing that cosmic structures are far more complicated than astronomers once ...

New James Webb Space Telescope observations suggest that organic molecules are much more common outside our galaxy than ...

Astronomers using the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope have uncovered an unprecedented richness of small gas-phase ...

By: John Ratliff II Dark Matter is a scientific discovery to cosmetology and astronomy, first thought of when early astronomers questioned what made up the gaps in-between galaxies. With improvements ...

The discovery comes from observations of a galaxy called IRAS 07251–0248, classified as an ultra-luminous infrared galaxy. These galaxies shine intensely in infrared light because their central ...

On a clear night, the Milky Way and the Andromeda galaxy look like close neighbors. In space, they really are.