According to new research, the earliest seeds of structures may have been laid down by gravitational waves sloshing around in ...

The Universe really seems to be expanding fast. Too fast, even. A new measurement confirms what previous -- and highly debated -- results had shown: The Universe is expanding faster than predicted by ...

The atmosphere, a thin veil of molecules enveloping Earth, reaches about 20 miles (32 kilometers) above the planet's surface.

These massive currents carry material on a journey through and around star-forming galaxies before they settle and form stars ...

However, there is still a great deal we don't know about the universe ... galaxies alone as rogue worlds due to gravitational interactions with passing stars, or even with other planets in their ...

According to a tenet scientists call the cosmological principle, our place in space is in no way exceptional. But recent ...

Galaxies like the Milky Way grow by merging with smaller galaxies over billions of years, unlike dwarf galaxies, which have long been thought to lack the heft to attract mass and grow in the same way.

The team believe these early quasars like J1429+5447 provided the energy to end the Dark Ages and herald in the Reionisation ...

In this special Hubble image 23 years in the making, the sparkling spiral galaxy UGC 10043 reveals the secrets of its ...

The telescope will catalogue billions of new objects and produce a new map of the entire night sky every three days with the ...

In the Milky Way and nearby galaxies, such as the Andromeda Galaxy ... to help astronomers study every phase of the history ...