Astronomers detect a laser-like signal coming from colliding galaxies 8 billion light-years away. A cosmic mystery.

New 3D map of the early universe from HETDEX reveals faint hydrogen light linking galaxies 9 to 11 billion years ago.

The powerful emission, known as a gigamaser, was discovered using the MeerKAT radio telescope in South Africa.

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have discovered a rare jellyfish galaxy 8.5 billion light-years from Earth, ...

Astronomers using a powerful radio telescope in South Africa have discovered an extraordinary cosmic signal coming from more than 8 billion light-years away. The signal comes from a rare object known ...

Thirty years after the discovery of the first exoplanet, we detected more than 7000 of them in our Galaxy. But there are still billions more to be discovered! At the same time, exoplanetologists have ...

A team of Italian astronomers discovered a fossil galaxy estimated to be 3 billion light-years away from Earth, making it the most distant spectacle of its kind outside of the local universe. Dubbed ...

Scientists discovered a distant jellyfish galaxy with star-forming "tails" stretching back 8.5 billion years.

Rocky planets like our Earth may be far more common than previously thought, according to new research published in the journal Science Advances. It suggests that when our solar system formed, a ...

In last week’s The Universe column, I fielded a reader’s question about galaxy collisions in an expanding universe. The answer deals with vast distances, inscrutable forces and the ultimate fate of ...

(Phys.org)—A pair of astrophysicists studying gamma ray bursts has found that such events might play a much larger role in the existence of life on Earth and other planets than has been thought. In ...