An international team of astronomers led by the University of Tokyo used ALMA to view 39 previously-undiscovered ancient galaxies.
If contemplating the vast size of astronomical objects makes you feel rather puny and insignificant, then this new discovery will…
Our planet is part of the larger structure of the Solar System, shaped and made stable by the force of…
Using the Hubble Space Telescope, a team of astronomers recently observed a bright disk around a black hole that defies…
Galaxy mergers are not particularly rare, but they are important events. Not only for the galaxies involved, but for scientists…
The Hubble Space Telescope has given us a beautiful image of the barred spiral galaxy NGC 7773. This is a…
The Hubble Legacy Field, the result of 16 years of observations and the most detailed image of our Universe, has…
When it comes to the first galaxies, the James Webb Space Telescope will attempt to understand the formation of those…
What happens when two galaxies collide? The Milky Way and the Andromeda Galaxy are on a collision course, and in…
I’ll be the first to admit that we don’t understand dark matter. We do know for sure that something funny…