Astronomers have been given the rare opportunity to study an extrasolar object after the recent discovery of the interstellar ...

Names are a strange thing in astronomy. Sometimes scientists come up with grandiose, simple name, like the Extremely Large ...

A few things on this planet are old enough to make history books look recent, and that includes some living trees that have ...

"Theories involving substantial formation of stars prior to or together with the black hole formation and growth are very ...

Baryon acoustic oscillations (BAOs) – the “sound of the Big Bang” – support the idea of a local void. Gabriela Secara, ...

When you hear the phrase "bird brain," you probably imagine someone forgetful or silly. After all, we often joke about how ...

The search for dark matter requires all the best models, theories, and ideas we can throw at it. A new paper by Julia Monika Koulen, Stefano Profumo, and Nolan Smyth from the University of California ...

Dark matter makes up 85% of the universe, but researchers, including Vera Rubin herself, historically have had a hard time ...