The galaxies, each as vast as the Milky Way, are baffling because most scientific models for galaxy evolution suggest ...

At the heart of our Milky Way galaxy lurks a supermassive black hole about four million times the mass of the sun, called ...

Researchers led by the University of Geneva identified three ultra-massive galaxies, each nearly as massive as the Milky Way, ...

An international team led by the University of Geneva (UNIGE) has identified three ultra-massive galaxies—nearly as massive ...

An international team that includes the University of Bath in the UK has discovered three ultra-massive galaxies (‘Red ...

Astronomers have identified three ultra-massive galaxies -- nearly as massive as the Milky Way -- already in place within the first billion years after the Big Bang. This surprising discovery was made ...

The chances of intelligent life emerging in our Universe -- and in any hypothetical ones beyond it -- can be estimated by a new theoretical model which has echoes of the famous Drake Equation. This ...

Princeton University graduate student Jiaxuan Li (李嘉轩) was part of a team seeking dwarf galaxies orbiting the spiral galaxy ...

An international team of astronomers has identified three ultra-massive galaxies—each nearly as massive as the Milky ...

American astronomer Dr. Frank Drake came up with an equation in the 1960s to calculate the number of detectable ...

A recently shared image of a distant galaxy surrounded by three concentric rings challenges our understanding of galactic ...

A team led by Dante Minniti and including Vatican Observatory scholars maps the Milky Way in stunning detail. Built from ...