Universe may be less crowded than we think
Detailing their work in Astrophysical Journal Letters, a team of scientists suggest there may be far fewer galaxies in the…
Search of 100,000 galaxies for advanced civilizations yields no obvious candidates
Using data from NASA’s WISE orbiting observatory, a team of scientists say they have found no evidence of the mid-infrared…
Entire star cluster flung from distant galaxy
Astrophysicists have discovered an entire star cluster that has been ejected from the galaxy known as M87 at more than…
Mysterious “hypervelocity stars” observed fleeing the galaxy
Astronomers have discovered dozens of solitary stars that are moving fast enough to escape the gravitational grasp of the Milky…
New titleholder for most distant galaxy hints at universe’s opaque beginnings
Newly discovered galaxy z8-GND-5296 is providing astronomers with an intriguing glimpse of what the universe was like when it was…
Distant galaxy poses astronomical puzzle
Astronomers have found the most distant gravitational lens yet – a galaxy that (as predicted by Albert Einstein’s general theory…
An Inconvenient Galaxy
The discovery of two new components within a puzzling spiral galaxy confirm it must have a pair of arms winding…
Puzzle Over Low Galaxy Count
Scientists from the University of Cambridge and the University of Exeter are suggesting that the evolution of the early Universe…