The aforementioned models of the cosmos, including the standard model of cosmology, have long posited the idea that the ...

The universe has two kinds of matter. There is invisible dark matter, known only because of its gravitational effects on a ...

The monstrous 85-mile-wide comet C/2014 UN271 is the second most distant body originating from the Oort Cloud found to be ...

The Vera C. Rubin Observatory will make the study of stars and galaxies more like the big data-sorting exercises of ...

Astronomers have discovered a huge filament of hot gas bridging four galaxy clusters. At 10 times as massive as our galaxy, ...

Faculty of Physics, together with colleagues from Poland and other countries, have identified an exoplanet—a gas giant ...

Astronomers have produced the most detailed map yet of the Sculptor Galaxy, revealing hundreds of previously unseen celestial ...

A stunning new image of the Sculptor Galaxy, located 11 million light-years away, painted in thousands of colors by the VLT, ...

An international team of astronomers reports the detection of a peculiar merger of two similar ring galaxies that ...

Astronomers have revealed a nearby spiral galaxy in all its brilliant glory, shining in thousands of colors. The dazzling ...

Bright flashes of enigmatic radio waves have helped illuminate some of the missing matter in the universe, astronomers say in ...

Astronomers have finally tracked down missing "ordinary" matter, which they discovered hiding as gas spread out in the vast ...