Thomas Mulligan shares the discovery that there are now known to be more galaxies in the universe than stars.

New simulations suggest that dozens of ultra-faint “ghost” galaxies may be orbiting the Milky Way, hidden from current ...

Astronomers have used the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) to peer into the early universe and uncover the ...

But in the past two decades, new types of black holes have been seen and astronomers are beginning to understand how they ...

Galaxies, including the Milky Way, grow from thick, turbulent disks into layered structures. JWST’s images show this process ...

In its first year alone, it will double the amount of data collected so far by every other instrument in the history of ...

Six years ago, a Dutch-led telescope on the Chinese Chang’e-4 demonstrated that it is possible to do radio astronomy from ...

Scientists are still trying to understand how galaxies formed and evolved from primordial gas clouds into the organized ...

One fascinating discovery was the detection of vast clouds of gas extending far beyond the main star-forming regions. These ...

Bechtol and his fellow scientists hope they can learn more about the universe than all of scientific progress has allowed in ...

Scientists think they found evidence of weird ancient stars called "dark stars" that are powered by dark matter instead of ...