Scientists led by a team from the University of Chicago recently released a study that mapped some of the largest known ...

For the first time, an international research team led by the Shanghai Astronomical Observatory (SHAO) of the Chinese Academy ...

Astronomers have unveiled a new catalog of massive galaxy clusters, revealing new insight on the evolution of the universe ...

An international team led by ICREA researcher Mark Gieles, from the Institute of Cosmos Sciences of the University of ...

Spend 8 minutes with an image that has changed astronomy forever - the first-ever deep field view of galaxy cluster SMACS 0723 from the James Webb Space Telescope. Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, and STScI | ...

The very first generation of stars, called Population III stars, are mostly expected to be too distant to see directly – but ...

For years, astronomers have been on the hunt for the first generation of stars, primordial relics of the early universe. And ...

UChicago-led study analyzes massive galaxy clusters mapped by the Dark Energy Survey, offers new way to probe cosmic laws ...

The broad plumes, which are 160 light-years across, are called polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) and are being pushed ...

At the heart of the Milky Way, just 27,000 light-years from Earth, there is a supermassive black hole with a mass of more than 4 million Suns.

Astronomers recently built a precise radio map of the Milky Way’s southern midline, showing 98,000 radio sources.