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“Its properties are astonishingly similar to our own galaxy, despite being only 1.5 billion years old,” said the paper’s co-author J. Xavier Prochaska, professor of astronomy and astrophysics at UC...

The universe is looking younger every day, it seems. New calculations suggest the universe could be a couple billion years younger than scientists now estimate, and even younger than suggested...

Stars crowd together into galaxies, galaxies assemble into clusters, and clusters amass to form superclusters. Astronomers, probing ever-larger volumes of the cosmos, have been surprised again and again to find...

A surprisingly large number of massive stars have been spotted in regions across the universe, shedding new light on how galaxies near and far evolve, a new study shows. In...

An artist’s impression of the 14 galaxies detected by the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array. They appear in the very early and distant universe, and these galaxies are in the process...

With an experiment launching to the International Space Station Monday (May 21), scientists will be able to create a temperature that’s 10 billion times colder than the vacuum of space...

LONDON — After years of fantastic rumors, intense secrecy, and widespread speculation, Ridley Scott’s «Prometheus» made its London premiere this week, and the cast and creators of the terrifying science-fiction...

The largest-ever three-dimensional map of the distant universe has been created using the light of the brightest objects in the cosmos. Since this distant light took eons to reach Earth,...

PARIS – New results from a look into the split second after the Big Bang indicate the universe is 80 million years older than previously thought but the core concepts...

The cosmic dark ages lasted no more than 180 million years. Astronomers have picked up a long-sought signal from some of the universe’s first stars, determining that these pioneers were...