Scientists have detected oxygen in the most distant known galaxy. Astronomers from two separate research teams made the ...

The clearest and most precise images yet of the universe in its infancy—the earliest cosmic time accessible to humans—have ...

A team of international astronomers has identified what is believed to be the largest known superstructure in the cosmos, a discovery that could reshape our understanding of outer space.

The latest results bolster a tantalizing hint from last April that something was awry with the standard model of cosmology, scientists’ best theory of the history and the structure of the universe.

Astronomers have performed a multiwavelength study of nine open cluster candidates. As a result, they found that all of them are genuine open clusters and characterized by their fundamental ...

Not even a connection to Kansas’ most famous astronomer could save the Pitt ... “Recycling the history is one of the most important parts of this project,” said Gary Hug, principal ...

Earlier this week, Saturn gained a whopping 128 new official moons, as the International Astronomical Union recognised discoveries from a team of astronomers led by Edward Ashton at the Academia ...