The giant elliptical galaxy NGC 1052 (at left) dominates the cluster it's a part of, though many other large galaxies are present, such as the giant spiral NGC 1042. Nearby to these galaxies are small ...

A team of scientists have demonstrated how to “weigh” galaxy clusters using light from the earliest moments of the universe—a new method that could help shed light on dark matter, dark energy and ...

Prof. Zhao Yinghe from the Yunnan Observatories of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, along with collaborators, have conducted a study examining the correlation between the [C II] 158 micron emission ...

The Einasto Supercluster is so vast that it would take a light signal 360 million years to get from one end to the other. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...

Astronomers dabbled in understanding the nature of various spatial objects, and sometimes they were different from what was hypothesized. It was the case with Ursa Major III (also known as UMa3/U1), ...

Scientists finally got a glimpse of what the universe looked like more than 13 billion years ago. And what they found could change everything we know about the dawn of the universe. "These objects are ...