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, ...

The massive galaxies have been compared to 100kg toddlers because they existed when the universe was still young. Find out ...

Discovering the solar system and the Milky Way is an exciting experience for children. A number of sites offer fun and ...

Both galaxies lie approximately 160 million light-years from Earth. This image shows a globular cluster called NGC 1651 and ...

There is a region of the sky where astronomers fear to look. Filled with dark clouds of dust, it hides an unseen mass. A mass ...

These findings help put a quantitative answer to the Drake Equation, which was an equation created by Dr. Frank Drake to try ...

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 ...

A recent study published in the journal Astronomy & Astrophysics revealed an exciting new discovery: a ‘cosmic tunnel’ in ...