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

The size of the Solar System and the Universe is truly beyond our comprehension. When we think of the vastness of space, we ...

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

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

Halo" was found in a galaxy far away from here. Scientists have only found the same readings near us - this could change the ...

This most fundamental question was famously posited by none other than Nobel laureate physicist Enrico Fermi (1901–1954).

One of the main objectives of the Hubble Space Telescope, launched in 1990, was to measure the size and age of the Universe, ...