Whether the universe will "end" at all is not certain, but all evidence suggests it will continue being humanity's cosmic ...

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Two barred spiral galaxies, known as NGC 7733 and NGC 7734, are in the process of merging. The lower galaxy has a dusty knot atop its upper arm, which marks a third galactic companion. | Credit: ...

The universe, which originated 14 billion years ago in the Big Bang, remains to evolve. Stars and galaxies form, age, and ...

An expanding universe complicates this picture just a little bit, because the universe absolutely refuses to be ...

The formation of galaxies in the universe should follow a fairly simple path. It starts with small galaxies, which then grow bigger and bigger until they become the giant galaxies we see in the modern ...

It got called the crisis in cosmology. But now astronomers can explain some surprising recent discoveries. Artist illustration of a black hole surrounded by extremely thick clouds of gas and dust.

A team of astronomers from the International Center for Radio Astronomy Research (ICRAR) has released new data from an ...

Young galaxies in the early universe adopted elongated shapes as they formed along filaments of the cosmic web, before evolving into more disc-like galaxies. When you purchase through links on our ...

The universe suddenly looks a lot more crowded, thanks to a deep-sky census assembled from surveys taken by NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope and other observatories. Astronomers came to the surprising ...

Queen guitarist Sir Brian May's latest book explores the history, mystery and evolution of galaxies in a way never tried ...

A few hundred million years after the Big Bang, a thick fog of hydrogen gas shrouded the newborn universe in darkness. Stars had begun to form in the densest clumps, but the surrounding gas muffled ...