Mysterious blasts of radio waves from across the universe called fast radio bursts help astronomers catalog matter. ESO/M. Kornmesser, CC BY-SA If you look across space with a telescope, you’ll see ...

Discover seven unusual galaxies defying scientific predictions, from impossibly bright early universe objects to astrophysics ...

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 ...

The earliest black holes in the universe may not have disappeared from Hawking radiation after all, new research hints.

The existence of massive, elliptical galaxies in the early universe has puzzled astronomers for two decades. An international ...

Astronomers have produced the most detailed map yet of dark matter, revealing the invisible framework that shaped the Universe long before stars and galaxies formed. Using powerful new observations ...

Galaxy merger is a crucial process in galactic evolution that has happened since the first galaxies came into being. Now JWST has spotted a truly incredible group of five galaxies merging in the early ...

Today we are going to talk about cosmology and the fact that black holes were considered as an almost unbelievable idea. In the 30s, British astronomer Arthur ...

When you look up at the night sky, it seems deep black with bright stars scattered across it. That familiar view leads many ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Whether the universe will “end” at all is not certain, but all evidence suggests it ...