Astrophysicists find the birth sites of gigantic elliptical galaxies which they say gives new clues about how they were formed. The galaxies look like bulging footballs and how they were created ...

Astronomers have uncovered a vast cloud of energetic particles—a "mini halo"—surrounding one of the most distant galaxy clusters ever observed, marking a major step forward in understanding the hidden ...

Stars are the building blocks of the universe, yet their arrangement within massive galaxies remains one of astronomy’s great enigmas. Most stars today are found in spheroids—dense, bulging regions ...

A team of researchers at the Institute of Astrophysics of the Canary Islands (IAC) has created a new simulation of early galaxy formation. The simulation allows us to get a fascinating, albeit brief ...

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The journey of the elements starts in the earliest moments of the Big Bang, when our universe was only a few seconds to a few minutes old. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an ...

The universe's expansion means its size is bigger than its age suggests. The universe's expansion doesn't have a speed limit like objects within it. Distant galaxies move away from us as space itself ...