"We found an unexpected chemical complexity, with abundances far higher than predicted by current theoretical models." ...

A vast, flat sheet of dark matter may solve the long-standing mystery of why our neighboring galaxy Andromeda is speeding ...

Astronomers used James Webb Space Telescope data to determine the density of the universe's most mysterious "stuff." ...

This idea is called the big bang model—which is an unfortunate name because it brings to mind a cosmos expanding like an ...

A study led by the Center for Astrobiology (CAB), CSIC-INTA, using modeling techniques developed at the University of Oxford, ...

A flat plane of dark matter beyond the Local Group may explain why nearby galaxies move away from us instead of falling ...

Dark matter doesn't absorb or give off light so scientists can't study it directly. But they can observe how its gravity ...

Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), astronomers have discovered a new dwarf galaxy, which received designation ...

The young galaxy cluster existed about 12.8 billion years ago and has an estimated mass 20 trillion times that of the sun ...

NASA confirms galaxy MoM-z14 observed by the James Webb Space Telescope formed 280 million years after the Big Bang using ...

For many years, scientists have tried to understand how the Milky Way is positioned in space, and how it moves together with ...

NGC 7722, captured by Hubble, sits somewhere between an elliptical galaxy and a spiral galaxy.