Scientists at Rutgers and collaborators have traced the invisible dark matter scaffolding of the universe using over 100,000 Lyman-alpha emitting galaxies. By studying how these galaxies clustered ...

Early in the story of the universe, long before galaxies like the Milky Way were expected to take shape, astronomers have now ...

In a groundbreaking astronomical discovery, researchers have unveiled a cosmic event of immense scale: a trio of galaxies, each hosting a supermassive black hole, is on a collision course. Located ...

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New images of the infant universe captured by the Atacama Cosmology Telescope (ACT) are the most precise "baby pictures" to date of the cosmos' "first steps" toward forming the first stars and ...

The European Space Agency's Euclid mission—designed to map the geometry of the dark universe with unprecedented precision—continues to deliver its first scientific insights. The Euclid Consortium has ...

Supermassive black holes may not be as massive as previously thought, according to a new discovery by scientists. Astronomers from the University of Southampton, working with colleagues from France, ...

One of the strangest contradictions in science—and in how we view our place in the universe—is that evolution occurs on Earth but not in the cosmos. At first, you might not spot this contradiction.

Astronomers have discovered a rare group of five dwarf galaxies located relatively close to Earth; these galaxies exist in a near-perfect alignment, resembling a string of cosmic pearls in the sky.

All biological amino acids on Earth appear exclusively in their left-handed form, but the reason underlying this observation is elusive. Recently, scientists uncovered new clues about the cosmic ...

Much remains a mystery about the first billion years of the universe’s history, the epoch in which the cosmos emerged from its dark ages with the dawning of the earliest stars and galaxies. Now ...

For the thousands of drivers who go past Cosmic Human Evolution every day, the sight of Ernest Doty’s and Ryan Montoya’s giant figures offer a glimpse of the future. And that future is the post-21st ...