Galaxy clusters—the big cities of the universe—are home to many giant elliptical galaxies that have completed their growth ...

They are also much smaller than their host galaxies, by a factor of about a million in radius. In new results we are ...

Was planetary formation different during the early universe than today? This is what a recent study published in The ...

According to a theory on social media, when you wish upon a star, you’re a million years too late. An astronomer reveals if ...

Scientists have spotted what appear to be two stars whipping around each other near the supermassive black hole at the center ...

After taking the first images of black holes, the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) is poised to reveal how black holes launch ...

Called S stars, they orbit at hypervelocities around the Milky Way’s center, and their only neighbors at the galactic core ...

The Square Kilometer Array Observatory is destined to make waves (and measure some too!) so IFLScience hopped over to South ...

Things have been tumultuous lately on Earth. Donald Trump will soon be sworn in as U.S. president, wars are raging, and ...

A new radio telescope on the top of Germany's Zugspitze mountain will help unravel the secrets of the universe. The project ...

Astronomers have spent decades trying to understand how galaxies grow so large. One piece of the puzzle is spheroids, also ...