In 1920, astronomers Harlow Shapley and Heber Curtis held a Great Debate. Shapley argued that the spiral nebulae were small ...
By looking ever further back in time, the James Webb Space Telescope is at last revealing the first galaxies – and a very ...
New research from the SAGA Survey, comparing the Milky Way with 101 similar galaxies, unveils how our galaxy differs ...
The cosmic superstructure Quipu is more than 13,000 times the length of the Milky Way, and its mass is 200 quadrillion times ...
(THE CONVERSATION) If you want to know what happened in the earliest years of the universe, you are going to need a very big, very specialized telescope. Much to the joy of astronomers and space fans ...
A new way to study 3D maps of galaxies in the cosmos without compressing the data is revealing new information about the dark universe. Hidden information in maps of galaxies spread across the ...
A new computational method gleans more information than its predecessors from maps showing how galaxies are clustered and threaded throughout the universe. Research led by the University of ...
In a significant astronomical discovery, researchers found three ultra-faint dwarf galaxies, offering new insights into the ...
An international team of researchers has found dark matter dominating the halos of two supermassive black holes in galaxies ...
In the century since Hubble’s pioneering work, astronomers like me have learned that the universe is vast and contains trillions of galaxies. Nature of the nebulae In 1610, astronomer Galileo ...
Kavli IPMU researchers are part of an international team that has found dark matter dominating the halos of two supermassive ...