But the Big Bang theory predicts that about 5% of the universe's contents should be atoms made of protons, neutrons and ...

Scientists analysing dark energy say the universe’s expansion may be slowing, raising the possibility gravity could ...

They believed that the indefinite expansion would spread the stars so far apart that the sky would appear dark throughout and ...

Contrary to popular belief, our universe may not be constantly expanding after all. A groundbreaking study by South Korean ...

The universe may not face disintegration (the Big Rip) but rather compression.

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Understanding how galaxies grow has long stood as one of astronomy’s core challenges. Over time, scientists have gathered ...

Another batch of the ‘impossible’ galaxies turned out not to be standard galaxies at all, but a new type of object that ...

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 ...

Look up at the sky on a clear night, and you’ll see thousands of stars – about 6,000 or so. But that’s only a tiny fraction of all the stars out there. The rest are too far away for us to see them.

Astronomers using data from ESA's Euclid and Herschel space telescopes have confirmed that star formation has already peaked in the cosmos, and that the universe is bound to get steadily 'colder and ...

The Andromeda galaxy is one of the most distant objects that we can see in the night sky with the naked eye. The light that we see now left there 2.5 million years ago. While this might seem a lot, in ...