Astronomers have spotted a pair of galaxies in the act of merging 12.8 billion years ago. The characteristics of these…
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For decades, scientists have known that some galaxies reside in dense environments with lots of other galaxies nearby. Others drift…
Read More »Our universe is around 13.8 billion years old. Over the vastness of this time, the tiniest of initial asymmetries have…
Read More »Researchers continue to expand the case for the Younger Dryas Impact hypothesis. The idea proposes that a fragmented comet smashed…
Read More »Since the very first instant after the Big Bang the Universe has been expanding. This means that the early Universe…
Read More »Researchers are diving into a synthetic universe to help us better understand the real one. Using supercomputers at the U.S.…
Read More »Researchers at the University of Bern have for the first time been able to pin down a prehistoric settlement of…
Read More »A group of researchers at the University of Waterloo and the University of British Columbia have discovered a potential “cosmic…
Read More »Eclipses are not particularly rare in the universe. One occurs every time a planet, its orbiting moon, and its sun…
Read More »For the first time, astronomers have measured the speed of fast-moving jets in space, crucial to star formation and the…
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