Astronomers using data from ESA's Euclid and Herschel space telescopes have confirmed that star formation has already peaked ...

“The Universe will just get colder and deader from now on,” added Douglas Scott, study author and a cosmologist at the ...

Monster black holes entered the cosmic scene soon after the Universe’s birth and grew rapidly, reaching millions or even ...

Frozen complex organic molecules have been discovered for the first time around a young protostar in a galaxy other than our ...

Before atomic elements came together, less than a second after the Big Bang, if particles condensed into halos of matter, ...

A handful of extremely massive stars, each heavier than 1,000 Suns, may have sculpted the chemistry of the oldest star ...

UBC astronomers release a sneak peak of the most accurate measurements yet of key aspects of the Universe, including star ...

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An international team of astronomers has employed the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) to observe a distant galaxy ...

This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features a galaxy whose asymmetric appearance may be the result of a galactic tug of war. Located 35 million light-years away in the constellation Leo, the ...

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

The study of galaxies and their star formation processes remains a cornerstone of modern astrophysics. Galaxies are the fundamental building blocks of the Universe, each hosting a complex interplay of ...