In an article published in the June 2003 Astronomical Journal, researchers from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, the Instituto de Astrofisica de Canarias in Spain, and Williams College ...
A group of researchers at the University of Waterloo and the University of British Columbia have discovered a potential “cosmic glitch” in the universe’s gravity, explaining its strange behaviour on a ...
Recent astronomical research indicates that our Earth may be embedded within one of the largest known structures in the observable universe. Scientists have identified a vast ring of galaxies that ...
WASHINGTON - Scientists have found a cosmic supermom. It's a galaxy that gives birth to more stars in a day than ours does in a year. Astronomers used NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory to spot this ...
Scientists have been scratching their heads at the expansion of the universe since it was discovered nearly a century ago, particularly applying fundamental theories such as Einstein's Theory of ...
How fast is the universe expanding? How much does matter clump up in our cosmic neighborhood? Scientists use two methods to answer these questions. One involves observing the early cosmos and ...