Scientists peering into the early universe are baffled to see lonely quasars drifting away in the void. Quasars are one of ...

Astronomers hypothesize that a long-ago dwarf galaxy dubbed Loki may have merged with the Milky Way when our galaxy was in ...

From the discovery of gravity to the first mission to defend Earth from an asteroid, here are the most important physics ...

New research suggests that we may be vastly underestimating the number of black holes that existed in the early universe, ...

Using the Gaia space telescope, astronomers have observed 55 massive stars ejected from their home star cluster in the Large ...

Some of the largest galaxies known are the giant elliptical ... and other light elements into heavier elements by nuclear fusion. At some point, these stars transform as the supply of hydrogen ...

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have spotted a rare galaxy at the dawn of time that may be a "missing link" ...

However, at very early times, it was sufficiently hot (millions of degrees) to enable the fusion of all of the ... there would be no galaxies, no stars or planets – and no life.

A rare kind of supernova devoid of hydrogen and helium is a known source of many metals, though whether the stars that give ...

Despite these difficulties, antimatter remains an intriguing topic due to its unique features and its prospective use in imaging and theoretical missions to distant galaxies in the future ... that of ...