It’s always amazing, and more than a little humbling, when the universe reminds us that our “common sense” is provincial, ...

Recent astronomical research indicates that our Earth may be embedded within one of the largest known structures in the observable universe. Scientists have identified a vast ring of galaxies that ...

(Santa Barbara, California) — A tiny galaxy, nearly halfway across the universe, the smallest in size and mass known to exist at that distance, has been identified by an international team of ...

Could we turn our solar system into a spaceship and drive the Sun around the galaxy? Interstellar travel is horrible and deadly. Much safer to stay on here Earth with our gloriously habitable ...

Jacqueline Antwi-Danso is in the Department of Astronomy & Astrophysics, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario M5S 3H4, Canada. Before the launch of JWST, even massive quenched galaxies were ...

A team of Italian astronomers discovered a fossil galaxy estimated to be 3 billion light-years away from Earth, making it the most distant spectacle of its kind outside of the local universe. Dubbed ...

Your motion through the universe is extremely complicated, so let’s figure it out! Perhaps you’ve seen videos of how the planets of the solar system move through the universe in this cool helix. Not ...

The history of how stars and galaxies came to be and evolved into the present day remains among the most challenging astrophysical questions to solve yet, but new research brings us closer to ...

The galaxy, J1135, is located 12 billion light-years away and is seen as it was less than 2 billion years after the Big Bang. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...