Researchers led by a Rutgers University-New Brunswick astrophysicist, who looked deeply into space at a period known as ...

Astronomers capture the universe’s brightest era, revealing when galaxies like the Milky Way first formed and began to shine.

Dr. Sukanya Chakrabarti, the Pei-Ling Chan Endowed Chair at The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH), a part of The ...

Unlike any objects we know, these filaments really surprised us.” With this sentence, Shanghai Jiao Tong University’s Kai ...

The Milky Way is the only known galaxy to have life. But, in a couple billions of years, every trace of our existence will be ...

Scientists previously predicted the pair of galaxies would merge in about five billion years. Now, research suggests that ...

New research led by Dr. James De Buizer at the SETI Institute and Dr. Wanggi Lim at IPAC at Caltech revealed surprising ...

A massive barred spiral galaxy from 11.1 billion years ago has been discovered, showing star-forming activity and gas ...

A mysterious region near the center of the Milky Way has captured the attention of astronomers. Known as Sagittarius C, this ...

When the billions of stars comprising the Milky Way, our home galaxy, appear especially vibrant as the band arcs across the ...

There is only a 50 percent chance of this happening even in the next 10 billion years, according to study by UK and ...

A recent study reveals four previously unknown primordial open cluster groups in the Milky Way, challenging traditional ...