For years, astronomers have been on the hunt for the first generation of stars, primordial relics of the early universe. And ...

Located only 56 million light-years away in Ursa Major, NGC 4102 gives astronomers a nearby target to study how these active cores impact their host galaxies.

We measure the “warmness” of the dark matter, i.e. the comoving root-mean-square thermal velocity v hrms (1) , with nearly 3000 spiral galaxy rotation curves in the ...

The universe's first galaxies were hot messes, according to a recent study. During their younger days, they were wild, ...

For the first time, an international research team led by the Shanghai Astronomical Observatory (SHAO) of the Chinese Academy ...

A new international study has provided one of the clearest signs yet that dark matter—not a change in gravity—is responsible for the mysterious way galaxies spin. By studying some of the smallest and ...

One of those ground-based telescopes is the Rubin Observatory, named after famed astronomer Vera Rubin. Unlike other ...

New Samsung Galaxy S26 series leak highlights the size difference between models, from the Galaxy S26 to the Galaxy S26 Ultra ...

The very first generation of stars, called Population III stars, are mostly expected to be too distant to see directly – but ...

The Big Bang theory has dominated our understanding of the universe’s origin for almost 100 years. It describes a moment when ...

Researchers have discovered the largest black hole plasma jets ever in a galaxy almost 7 billion light years away from Earth.

Using the James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers have captured the clearest picture yet of how galaxies formed in the early universe.