Through the citizen science project, called Galaxy Zoo (part of the Zooniverse platform), volunteers can help astronomers ...

Scientists have detected oxygen in a galaxy so distant that its light has traveled 13.4 billion years to reach Earth, ...

Astrophysicists have proposed a new theoretical maximum lifespan for the universe, which suggests that dead stars are ...

The fact that every second of every day, there are lots of supernovae happening in the universe, just not where we would see them. The avera ...

A mysterious cluster of 60 stars may be just another Milky Way star cluster, or it may be one of the smallest galaxies ever ...

Researchers suggest powerful bursts from magnetars—collapsed stars with strong magnetic fields—may have contributed up to 10 ...

Scientists detect oxygen in GHZ2, a galaxy located 13.4 billion light-years away, revealing intense star formation and low ...

From the ocean’s rolling swells to the bumpy ride of a jetliner, turbulence is everywhere. Yet despite its ubiquity, ...

Elliptical galaxies are some of the oldest types of galaxies in the universe. They formed relatively quickly after the Big ...

Scientists are using cosmic distortions in light to test a bold idea: that the Universe might not be as symmetrical as we’ve ...