Pfalzner's models show that interstellar objects — bodies ejected from other star systems — could be captured by these planet ...

A Rutgers-led team of scientists has uncovered evidence of how galaxies expand by tracing the invisible scaffolding of the ...

Globular clusters are dense groups of hundreds of thousands to millions of stars that orbit galaxies such as the Milky Way.

Is there a scientific reason why the universe exists? In other words, what is the science of why there is anything at all, ...

Scientists have discovered a giant black hole that they believe may have been formed in the first few microseconds after the ...

Signals from the universe infancy is something that many people have tried to unveil, but it was only recently that someone ...

In the universe, how gas is gradually transported from large scales to small scales to form an accretion disk around massive ...

What was the universe like in the first few hundreds of millions of years after it came into existence? How did the first stars and galaxies form? Those are questions that astronomers now have a ...

Among the most fundamental questions in astronomy is: How did the first stars and galaxies form? NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope is already providing new insights into this question. One of the ...

Was planetary formation different during the early universe than today? This is what a recent study published in The Astrophysical Journal hopes to address as an international team of researchers ...

Look at this new radio image covered with dots, each of which is a distant galaxy! The brightest spots are galaxies that are powered by supermassive black holes and shine bright in radio light. But ...