Astronomers have uncovered a hidden population of dusty galaxies that formed just one billion years after the Big Bang, offering a new glimpse into the universe’s formative years. An international ...

Astronomers have made a historic discovery by directly detecting cosmic rays deep inside a dense, starless molecular cloud.

Astronomers have long believed that planetary systems follow a familiar blueprint. Small rocky planets ...

A restarted black hole in J1007+3540 reveals how episodic jet activity and cluster pressure sculpt giant radio galaxies. Astronomers have captured one of the clearest views yet of a black hole ...

The studied galaxy existed about 930 million years ago after the Big Bang. Even though this might sound like a long time ago, in universe terms this is not ...

Cosmic rays inside a dense molecular cloud were measured for the first time, helping scientists better understand how stars begin forming.

Scientists have discovered a giant cosmic filament where galaxies spin in sync with the structure that holds them together. The razor-thin chain of galaxies sits inside a much larger filament that ...

A figure illustrating the rotation of a newly discovered cosmic filament. (Seoyoung Lyla Jung/University of Oxford) (CN) — It appears the more we investigate the universe for answers, the more ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A team of astronomers are, in a manner of speaking, on cloud nine after discovering a never-before-seen astronomical object in the ...

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have discovered a rare “jellyfish galaxy” 8.5 billion light-years away, with long gas tentacles formed by cosmic stripping. This sighting suggests ...