Credit: National Astronomical Observatories of China and Shanghai Astronomical Observatory of CAS The Universe still has ...

Star formation across the universe has fallen dramatically over the past 4.5 billion years, but astronomers have uncovered a ...

Cosmologists have spent decades trying to pin down exactly how fast the universe is flying apart and whether that rate is changing. A new AI-driven method called GAME, short for Genetic Algorithms ...

An atlas doesn't seem to be an essential item in cars these days, but think about them and most people will think about distances. An atlas of the stars not only covers distances but must also take ...

How do galaxies such as our Milky Way come into existence? How do they grow and change over time? The science behind galaxy formation has remained a puzzle for decades, but a University of Arizona-led ...

NASA and the European Space Agency have released an image captured by the Hubble Space Telescope of a dwarf irregular galaxy that they admit looked "unexciting" at first glance. However, there's more ...

Physicists who work with a concept called string theory envision our universe as an eerie place with at least nine spatial dimensions, six of them hidden from us, perhaps curled up in some way so they ...

Galaxies from the early Universe are more like our own Milky Way than previously thought, flipping the entire narrative of how scientists think about structure formation in the Universe, according to ...