Researchers are perplexed by a galaxy that seems too large and too dusty for its place in cosmic history, less than a ...

New simulations show that early ultraviolet light controlled whether ultra-faint dwarf galaxies could form stars.

The properties of faint dwarf galaxies around the Milky Way can reveal a lot about the conditions of the early universe, the ...

The Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) has achieved its goal. Every single area of the sky that the collaboration ...

The largest 3D map of the universe, created based on data from the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument, shows 47 million ...

A spectacular cosmic event nicknamed “SN Winny” could help solve one of astronomy’s biggest mysteries: how fast the universe is expanding. This rare superluminous supernova, located 10 billion ...

The Milky Way galaxy grew into its current form with the help of smaller galaxies over time, which it has "consumed" or ...

If our galaxy was in the middle of the Boötes void, we wouldn’t have known there were other galaxies until the 1960s.

Ultra-faint dwarf galaxies—tiny satellite galaxies orbiting the Milky Way—have long been seen as cosmic fossils. Now, a new ...

As per Universe Today, the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) “sits on a telescope high above the Sonoran Desert.” ...

The Dark Energy Survey collaboration is releasing results that, for the first time, combine all of the data from an intensive six-year mapping of galaxies in the universe. The new analysis, of ...

Mysterious blasts of radio waves from across the universe called fast radio bursts help astronomers catalog matter. ESO/M. Kornmesser, CC BY-SA Chris Impey, University of Arizona If you look across ...