Clash of Galaxies, the upcoming sci-fi strategy game set within an expansive and dynamic universe, has officially launched ...

Whether the universe will "end" at all is not certain, but all evidence suggests it will continue being humanity's cosmic ...

Two barred spiral galaxies, known as NGC 7733 and NGC 7734, are in the process of merging. The lower galaxy has a dusty knot atop its upper arm, which marks a third galactic companion. | Credit: ...

An expanding universe complicates this picture just a little bit, because the universe absolutely refuses to be ...

The formation of galaxies in the universe should follow a fairly simple path. It starts with small galaxies, which then grow bigger and bigger until they become the giant galaxies we see in the modern ...

The cosmos might be playing a different game than we thought. Scientists have spent decades believing our universe was ...

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NASA’s Galaxy Evolution Explorer has spotted what appear to be massive “baby” galaxies in our corner of the universe. Previously, astronomers thought the universe’s birth rate had dramatically ...

A new study casts doubt on the universe’s accelerating expansion, suggesting dark energy might be weakening over time.

Astrophysicists find the birth sites of gigantic elliptical galaxies which they say gives new clues about how they were formed. The galaxies look like bulging footballs and how they were created ...

What is the actual speed and direction of our solar system as it moves through the cosmos, and how does this compare to ...

The universe suddenly looks a lot more crowded, thanks to a deep-sky census assembled from surveys taken by NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope and other observatories. Astronomers came to the surprising ...