While researchers did use the James Webb Space Telescope to discover a cluster of galaxies they called the "Cosmic Vine," they didn't release an image circulating on social media as part of their ...

The first time I heard about galaxies without dark matter, I was sitting in my very first graduate class at the University of São Paulo. It was 2018, and the discovery had just been announced. A team ...

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The standard cosmological model (present-day version of "Big Bang," called Lambda-CDM) gives an age of the universe close to 13.8 billion years and much younger when we explore the universe at ...

A new high-resolution map of distant galaxies may help scientists understand a mysterious invisible substance that helps hold the universe together. The ordinary matter all around us — stars, planets ...

Astronomers spotted nine galaxies with characteristics that have never been seen as a collection before. It's possible this is a newly found type of star-forming galaxy. When you purchase through ...

Nearly all stars are found inside or around galaxies, because that’s where the conditions are right for stars to form. Within galaxies, stars form inside cold, dense molecular gas clouds like those ...

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope captured two nearby dwarf galaxies interacting with each other in this image released on Dec. 2, 2025. Dwarf galaxies can give us insights into galaxies in the early ...

'Tis the season for holiday gift guides. You know, the ones that suggest 31 fish gifts for your fish-obsessed friends. They're everywhere this time of year, though nowhere quite as surprising as a ...

WASHINGTON, Dec 8 (Reuters) - Scientists have observed the largest-known rotating structure in the cosmos - a gargantuan thread-like assemblage of hundreds of galaxies, gas and dark matter that makes ...

Visiting Tokyo for the first time can feel like stepping into the future and the past at once. This vast, ever-shifting metropolis is all about contrasts: centuries-old shrines tucked beside glass ...

Professor Martin Knight, Co-Director of Queen Mary's Centre for Predictive in vitro Models, has taken a significant step forward in the development of laboratory-based models of human tissues which ...