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 ...

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 ...

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 ...