A new study has found that a hidden bias in galaxy models can skew gravitational-wave measurements of how fast the universe is expanding. That finding complicates one of astronomy’s most promising ...

By reading the chemical “fingerprints” of a distant galaxy, astronomers reconstructed its 12-billion-year evolution. This new ...

A team of astronomers from the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian has pioneered a new field called extragalactic archaeology. According to the new study published in the ...

Oxygen was just found in a distant galaxy — and it may provide answers on how ours developed - The galaxy is 13.4 billion ...

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A new high-resolution map of distant galaxies may help scientists understand a mysterious invisible substance that helps hold the universe together. The ordinary matter all around us — stars, planets ...

A team of astronomers led by the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard and Smithsonian have for the first time used galactic ...

The research could shed light on how black holes vomit out matter and how this influences their home galaxies.

Astronomers detect a laser-like signal coming from colliding galaxies 8 billion light-years away. A cosmic mystery.

Reaching distant galaxies remains a monumental challenge due to vast interstellar distances, with even the nearest galaxy ...

A new high-resolution map of distant galaxies may help scientists understand a mysterious invisible substance that helps hold the universe together. The ordinary matter all around us — stars, planets ...