The Milky Way, our home galaxy, is part of a different supercluster called Laniakea, which, at 500 million light-years wide, ...

On this week's Shack Chat, we opine on which characters in the Star Wars universe we'd like to see get love in their own game ...

A fog of long-wavelength infrared light could be produced by dusty, star-forming galaxies that have remained hidden — until ...

Gravity's pull – both on planet Earth and in outer space – is the universe trying to keep its vast amount of data organised, Professor Vopson claims. Forcing objects with mass into one ...

An international team of scientists led by a Rutgers University–New Brunswick astrophysicist has discovered a potentially ...

Beloved Souls, Warm greetings to each one of you—wherever in this vast universe you reside, and in whatever chapter of life ...

A secret population of hidden galaxies suffusing the universe in a soft glow of far-infrared light have been strongly suggested to exist, based on careful detective work into some of the most ...

The scientists have named the molecular hydrogen cloud “Eos,” after the Greek goddess of mythology who is the personification ...

The find shines light on how galaxies begin to turn gas and dust "into stars and planets," said astrophysicist Blakesley ...

Astronomers have long struggled with a troubling puzzle: a significant portion of normal matter in the universe appeared to ...