Astronomers using computer simulations have investigated whether a class of star clusters nicknamed "cosmic wallflowers" ...

Probing the dawn of the cosmos for clues to how the first galaxies and supermassive black holes formed is no easy feat ...

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Astronomers have used the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope (ESO's VLT) to study the composition of ...

Massive galaxies? Dusty black holes? Black hole stars? Scientists have raised a lot of theories around what the crimson blobs ...

When Andreas Albrecht was a grad student at the University of Pennsylvania, he was looking for an advisor in particle physics ...

One of the most basic and accepted truths about the universe is that it’s pretty much the same everywhere you look. In other ...

Explaining the passage of time has been a gnarly problem in physics basically forever, but physicist and computer scientist ...

Thus far, our search for extraterrestrial life points toward Clarke’s former point, suggesting that our little blue dot is ...

The Vera C. Rubin Observatory in Chile has begun an epic decade-long mission to create "the greatest cosmic movie ever made." ...

Ancient evidence suggests a new twist in how we all got here.

New telescopes are challenging the idea that the cosmic web fades into a uniform, directionless distribution. It may be ...