Only 5% of all visible matter in the universe is baryonic matter, while the remaining 95% consists of dark matter and dark ...

Researchers studied how the universe’s structure changed over time. They found that the universe is less clumpy than expected ...

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has captured a unique image that revealed 44 individual stars in a galaxy 6.5 billion light ...

This is what a recent study published in The Astrophysical Journal hopes to address as a team of researchers challenged longstanding hypotheses that the first galaxies in the universe were formed from ...

A new computational method gleans more information than its predecessors from maps showing how galaxies are clustered and threaded throughout the universe.

Ultra-faint dwarf galaxies, cosmic 'ghost towns,' offer new insights into the early universe and star formation.

The Milky Way and thousands of other galaxies are drawn to "something": We have no idea what it is. The Great Attractor is a ...

These massive currents carry material on a journey through and around star-forming galaxies before they settle and form stars ...

By combining data from the DESI Legacy Imaging Surveys and the Gemini South telescope, astronomers have investigated three ...

A rare group of aligned, star-birthing dwarf galaxies resemble a cosmic string of pearls. Astronomers have discovered a rare ...