cosmic

Astronomers have spotted a pair of galaxies in the act of merging 12.8 billion years ago. The characteristics of these…

For decades, scientists have known that some galaxies reside in dense environments with lots of other galaxies nearby. Others drift…

Our universe is around 13.8 billion years old. Over the vastness of this time, the tiniest of initial asymmetries have…

Researchers continue to expand the case for the Younger Dryas Impact hypothesis. The idea proposes that a fragmented comet smashed…

Since the very first instant after the Big Bang the Universe has been expanding. This means that the early Universe…

Researchers are diving into a synthetic universe to help us better understand the real one. Using supercomputers at the U.S.…

Researchers at the University of Bern have for the first time been able to pin down a prehistoric settlement of…

A group of researchers at the University of Waterloo and the University of British Columbia have discovered a potential “cosmic…

Eclipses are not particularly rare in the universe. One occurs every time a planet, its orbiting moon, and its sun…

For the first time, astronomers have measured the speed of fast-moving jets in space, crucial to star formation and the…