Astrophysicists from the University of Waterloo have observed a new jellyfish galaxy, the most distant one of its kind ever captured. Jellyfish galaxies are named for the long, tentacle-like streams ...

An international team led by the University of Oxford has identified one of the most massive and unusual structures in the Universe, a giant cosmic filament located 140 million light-years away. This ...

The studied galaxy existed about 930 million years ago after the Big Bang. Even though this might sound like a long time ago, in universe terms this is not ...

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A vast, flat sheet of dark matter may solve the long-standing mystery of why our neighboring galaxy Andromeda is speeding ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A developing galaxy cluster dating to about 1 billion years after the Big Bang is shown in this handout image released on January ...

New research suggests that the heart of the Milky Way may be dominated by a dense clump of dark matter rather than the ...

Two ways of measuring how fast the universe is expanding disagree, a puzzle known as the Hubble tension. Tiny magnetic fields ...

Neutrino particles have extremely small masses, yet there are so many of them that they carve out the large-scale structure ...

You might think galaxies can’t ever find each other in our runaway cosmos, but it turns out gravity can sometimes overcome ...

An expanding universe complicates this picture just a little bit, because the universe absolutely refuses to be straightforward. Objects are still emitting light, and that light takes time to travel ...

"There is a growing chasm between theory and observation related to the early universe, which presents compelling questions ...