T he first time I heard about galaxies without dark matter, I was sitting in my very first graduate class at the University of São Paulo. It was 2018, and the discovery had just ...

"These galaxies are very old, which means stars were being formed in the early universe, earlier than our current models predict." When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...

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An international team of scientists led by the Institute of Cosmos Sciences at the University of Barcelona (ICCUB) and the Institute of Space Studies of Catalonia (IEEC) has presented REGALADE, an ...

Whether or not galaxies merge depends on how strong the gravitational attraction is between the galaxies and whether the universe’s expansion is more powerful than gravity. Gravity affects everything ...

"An active supermassive black hole is like a hungry predator dominating the ecosystem." When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Breaking ...

Anais Möller receives funding from the Australian Research Council and the French National Centre for Scientific Research. When you look up at the night sky, it appears unchanging. But if you look ...

Master the rules before you break them. According to new research, not even humanity’s greatest minds were exempt from this timeless rule—including Galileo Galilei, whose contributions to astronomy ...

A team of 48 astronomers from 14 countries, led by the University of Massachusetts Amherst, has discovered a population of dusty, star-forming galaxies at the far edges of the universe that formed ...

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This deep space image taken by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope contains CDG-2, a dark matter-dominated galaxy. Credit: NASA / ESA / David Li et al. / J. DePasquale Astronomers have spotted something ...