"We've always known that we need something to complete the puzzle, but we haven't really known what shape or form those ...

About half of the non-dark matter in the universe cannot be accounted for by stars and galaxies alone. Now, scientists say ...

In a nutshell Scientists have discovered Zhúlóng, a fully-formed spiral galaxy that existed just 1 billion years after the ...

Zhúlóng is the most distant spiral galaxy ever seen. It formed 1 billion years after Big Bang, yet has a calm structure like ...

Mysterious dark matter makes up 85 percent of matter in the universe, and of the remaining 15 percent, scientists couldn’t ...

A blob of gas seen outside the Milky Way could be a type of starless, dark matter–dominated galaxy. Some scientists are skeptical.

Astronomers may have uncovered a hidden population of galaxies that could rewrite what we know about the universe's evolution ...

In the grand puzzle of the cosmos, one question continues to defy easy answers: how fast is the universe expanding?

An international team led by NSF NOIRLab astronomer Christina Williams has discovered the most distant spiral galaxy known to ...

Possible evidence of the galaxies' existence was detected on the deepest ever image of the universe at long far-infrared wavelengths, which features almost 2,000 distant galaxies and was created ...

Languages: English. Astronomers peering back deep in time into the distant universe think they may have discovered a population of previous hidden galaxies that could shake up astrophysics.

In recent years, one of the most troubling puzzles in astrophysics has grown more urgent. Scientists have realized that the ...