Astronomers believe there are about 100 billion stars in the Milky Way. But, this number of stars depends on various factors. To figure out how many stars are in the Milky Way, astronomers have to ...

Long ago, before galaxies formed into shapes we are familiar with today and before planets formed, the earliest stars ignited ...

The universe's first galaxies were hot messes, according to a recent study. During their younger days, they were wild, ...

A remarkable new study challenges the findings of Nobel Prize winning research into how our universe has changed over time.

JWST observations show that early galaxies were chaotic, gas-filled systems rather than stable disks. Researchers from ...

Scientists led by a team from the University of Chicago recently released a study that mapped some of the largest known ...

A new theory claims dark matter and dark energy don’t exist — they’re just side effects of the universe’s changing forces. By ...

At the heart of the Milky Way, just 27,000 light-years from Earth, there is a supermassive black hole with a mass of more ...

An international team led by ICREA researcher Mark Gieles, from the Institute of Cosmos Sciences of the University of ...

A Rutgers-led team of scientists has uncovered evidence of how galaxies expand by tracing the invisible scaffolding of the universe created by a mysterious substance known as dark matter. "Analyzing ...