Astronomers find galaxy Y1, a young star-forming region, revealing extreme heat just 600 million years after the Big Bang.

Astronomers have confirmed the earliest barred spiral galaxy in the universe, a Milky-Way-like structure that existed just 2 ...

Astronomers found a young galaxy cluster with unexpectedly hot gas, suggesting cosmic structures formed faster than once believed.

Scientists have identified a strange cosmic relic called Cloud-9 — a starless, gas-filled object dominated by dark matter.

Earth and the entire Milky Way galaxy might be sitting inside an enormous, mysterious void—a giant cosmic hole making our universe expand faster right here than anywhere else. This unusual idea, ...

A team of Italian astronomers discovered a fossil galaxy estimated to be 3 billion light-years away from Earth, making it the most distant spectacle of its kind outside of the local universe. Dubbed ...

(PhysOrg.com) -- It takes light from our closest star, the Sun, about eight minutes to reach Earth. But light that leaves stars in distant galaxies takes a lot more time to reach our planet — billions ...

There are plenty of awesome objects in the universe, made more marvelous by scientists’ ability to image and understand the laws and processes that make them possible. Each year, researchers make new ...

Rocky planets like our Earth may be far more common than previously thought, according to new research published in the journal Science Advances. It suggests that when our solar system formed, a ...

The most powerful cosmic rays in the universe currently have no explanation. New research suggests that exotic, self-annihilating particles in our own galaxy may hold the answer. When you purchase ...