Astronomers map distances in the largest-ever caatalog to 56,000 galaxies
Galaxies, such as the Milky Way, are the building blocks of the universe, each comprised of up to several hundred billion stars.
Galaxies, such as the Milky Way, are the building blocks of the universe, each comprised of up to several hundred billion stars.
An astronomer on the James Webb Space Telescope team explains how to send a giant telescope to space, and why.
One of the major problems in understanding the formation of galaxies is that approximately 80 per cent of the baryons that make up the normal matter of galaxies are missing. Baryons are particles consisting of protons and neutrons.
The galaxy called AUDFs01 was discovered by a team of astronomers led by Dr Kanak Saha from the Inter-University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics (IUCAA) Pune.
A Black Hole is formed when a huge star of around eight solar masses or more collapses on its own gravity.
Are the principles explaining the cosmic home's creation and functioning vital for our continued existence?
Stephen Hawking is an English theoretical physicist, cosmologist, and an author, and his work with the University of Cambridge includes…
With a survey covering about 1/30th of the entire sky and spanning several billion light-years in extent, scientists have made…
Large comets that take more than 200 years to make one revolution around the Sun are more common in the…
Does humanity exist to serve some ultimate, transcendent purpose? Conventional scientific wisdom says no. As physicist Lawrence Krauss puts it…
