Scientists observing the Centaurus galaxy cluster made an exciting breakthrough by discovering powerful streams of hot gas ...

Astronomers from the University of Arizona have uncovered astonishing details about a galaxy that existed when the universe ...

Researchers have identified a galaxy that existed when the universe was less than 300 million years old. This galaxy, known ...

Bottom: An animated gif of the same galaxy that scrolls through images ... is one of probably about a trillion galaxies in the observable universe. My field of research is galaxy evolution. I ask ...

Carl Sagan told us that there are more stars in the universe than there are grains of sand on all of the Earth's beaches. At the same time, there are more H 2 O molecules in just 10 drops of water ...

Scientists are revolutionizing our understanding of the universe’s most mysterious component: dark matter, the invisible substance that accounts for 27% of the universe’s total mass.

Together, they contain 45 percent of all galaxy clusters, 30 percent of all galaxies, and a quarter of all matter within that region of the near Universe – but they occupy only 13 percent of its ...

The image, which was originally revealed back in January 2013, is a composite of a giant barred spiral galaxy known as NGC 6872. This beautiful and shining galaxy is believed to be the largest ...

Astronomers have found a massive radio jet, stretching across at least 200,000 light-years in the distant universe. The object is twice the width of the Milky Way galaxy and offers a rare glimpse ...

For their work, the research group used a catalog of galaxy clusters in the nearby universe, which was created with the help of the Rosat X-ray satellite. The German space observatory was launched ...