Long strands of glowing gas stretch behind a distant galaxy, dotted with pockets of newborn stars. The shape looks almost ...

Astronomers have puzzled for decades over how massive elliptical galaxies appeared so early in cosmic history. The standard ...

Faint structures play a crucial role in cosmic development, and scientists are only just beginning to grasp their full extent ...

Astronomers have long debated why so many icy objects in the outer solar system look like snowmen. Michigan State University researchers now have ...

The studied galaxy existed about 930 million years ago after the Big Bang. Even though this might sound like a long time ago, in universe terms this is not ...

Astronomers have long debated why so many icy objects in the outer solar system look like snowmen. Michigan State University ...

Recent research has uncovered a barred spiral galaxy formed 11.5 billion years ago, making it one of the earliest known galaxies that contains a stellar bar. The research was supported by Yingjie ...

Planetary systems in the Milky Way galaxy tend to follow a particular pattern: rocky planets toward the center, closest to ...

Astronomers have uncovered a distant planetary system that flips a long-standing rule of planet formation on its head. Around the small red dwarf star LHS 1903, scientists expected to find rocky ...

Tiny highly uniform magnetic fields are known to pervade the universe, influencing various cosmological processes. To date, ...

An international team of astronomers has discovered a distant planetary system that challenges long-standing theories of how planets form.

Scientists have identified a rocky outer planet in a system where a gas giant was expected. The discovery challenges ...