An international team of astronomers reports the detection of a peculiar merger of two similar ring galaxies that ...

A groundbreaking discovery has emerged from a recent study led by astronomers from Tsinghua University in Beijing. The ...

Astronomers have produced the most detailed map yet of the Sculptor Galaxy, revealing hundreds of previously unseen celestial ...

Learn how scientists found the universe's missing matter hiding in a massive cosmic filament stretching 23.5 million ...

Inspired by superconductivity, a strange new theory that seeks to explain dark matter might explain dark energy, too ...

These cosmic filaments contain 12 trillion solar masses of 10-million-degree gas, helping solve the "missing matter" mystery.

LEIDEN, Netherlands — For decades, astronomers have been hunting for roughly 40% of the universe’s ordinary matter that seemed to have vanished without a trace. Now, researchers using powerful X-ray ...

Early Spiral Galaxy Captured for the First Time Using Gravitational Lenses . For the first time ever, scientists have ...

For years, astronomers have been working to piece together the story of our universe, but the critical early chapters ...

Astronomers have discovered a huge filament of hot gas bridging four galaxy clusters. At 10 times as massive as our galaxy, ...

Could a rogue star disrupt our peaceful solar system? Scientists are keeping a close eye on the galactic neighborhood, and ...