Our new study of the nearby starburst galaxy Haro 11 has shown that strong X-ray-emitting superwinds may be a key mechanism ...

Astronomer Charles Steinhardt said most stars we see "might have formed under different conditions than we previously believed." ...

Scientists at Nagoya University in Japan were surprised by their study results, which they say are "indisputable." ...

Astronomers have peered back in time to find what looks like a population of 'hidden' galaxies that could hold the key to unlocking some of the universe's secrets. If their existence is confirmed it ...

"We were surprised by the streams of light that were visible near the center of the galaxies, as nothing similar has been ...

A team at Nagoya University in Japan has revealed new insights into the motion of massive stars in the Small Magellanic Cloud ...

Researchers from the University of Waterloo have proposed a new method to measure the Hubble constant that could help resolve ...

The potential finds could be contributing to some of the faintest light we can see in the universe, say researchers.

Researchers mapped a far-infrared landscape brimming with nearly 2,000 galaxies. There may be "hidden galaxies" lurking just ...

Up until recently, astronomy was reliant entirely on electromagnetic waves. While that changed with the confirmation of ...

O n November 16, 1974, the incredible Arecibo radio telescope was used not to receive radio light from the universe but to send out a message to the stars. And 50 years on, the message, the content, ...

A map of part of a mouse brain, which is expected to be generalisable to people, could help scientists understand behaviours, ...