The local universe may be expanding more slowly than previously thought, a discovery that could relieve a pesky discrepancy ...

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Two new studies have measured the expansion of the universe in our immediate cosmic neighborhood using a novel method that ...

Our galaxy, the Milky Way, is a beautiful barred spiral galaxy, but we will never see what it looks like from the outside. It is too big, and we are too deeply inside it. This limitation results in ...

A rare star reveals how the Universe's first stars exploded, helping explain the Milky Way’s outer halo and its unusual ...

A simulation of the cosmic sheet as seen from the side, with voids above and below. (Wempe et al., Nat. Astron., 2026) The Milky Way isn't just drifting through a giant void in space untethered, but ...

We could go out with a crunch, and not a bang. Contrary to popular belief, our universe may not be constantly expanding after all. A groundbreaking study by South Korean researchers suggests that dark ...

Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum Fields and Fundamental Forces from Imperial College London. Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum Fields and ...

The galaxy cluster appears hotter and more mature than it should for its young age, challenging what we think we know about how these cities of galaxies form. When you purchase through links on our ...

The jellyfish galaxy in question. The dashed circles mark the four extra-planar sources that are identified in the galaxy’s tail. Credit: The Astrophysical Journal. Astronomers ...

Astronomers studying a distant galaxy using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) have found the best candidates yet for the universe’s first stars. These so-called Population III stars arose shortly ...

While most of us are content “reaching for the stars” and “shooting for the moon,” a team of scientists at W.M. Keck Observatory took their ambitions a million steps further by discovering what is now ...