A team of physicists from Denmark, Finland and the United Kingdom, led by Dr Matti Herranen University of Copenhagen, says that the spacetime curvature...
In an effort to better understand how the Universe evolved as the first stars were formed, U.S. astronomers led by Dr Sanchayeeta Borthakur of Johns Hopkins...
A multinational team of astronomers, led by Dr Hugo Messias of the Universidad de Concepción in Chile and the Universidade de Lisboa in Portugal, has...
Based on the discovery of the Higgs boson and the recent results from the BICEP2 collaboration, UK physicists have made a surprising prediction: the Universe...
Starbursts in dwarf galaxies played a bigger role than expected in the early Universe, according to new data from the Wide Field Camera 3 (WFC3), onboard...
Astronomers led Dr Mark Vogelsberger of MIT/Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics have created the first realistic virtual Universe using a computer...
According to astronomers led by Dr Anna Frebel from Massachusetts Institute of Technology, an ultra-faint dwarf galaxy called Segue-1 may be one of first...
Scientists from the Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (BOSS) have used 140,000 quasars to measure the expansion rate of the Universe when it was...
Scientists using the BICEP2 Radio Telescope at the South Pole announced they have found the first direct evidence that gravitational waves – disturbances...
Astronomers led by Dr Stefan Keller of the Australian National University say they have discovered the oldest star ever seen in the Universe.
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Using optical data of a recently detected gamma ray burst afterglow, astronomers from the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Pennsylvania State...
According to an international team of astronomers working with ESA’s Herschel Space Telescope, two gas-rich, actively star-forming galaxies that collided...
Observations with the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), an array of 66 radio telescopes located in the dry and cloudless Atacama Desert...
An international team of astronomers led by Dr Sebastien Muller of the Chalmers University of Technology has made the most precise measurement ever of...
A study by Dr Stephen Curran of the University of Sydney and Dr Matthew Whiting of the CSIRO Astronomy and Space Science has addressed the mystery of why...
An international team of astronomers has found a possible way to map the spread and structure of the Universe, guided by the light of quasars.
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New observations from the Herschel Space Observatory have revealed that prodigious star formation in galaxies of the early Universe were often accompanied...
An international team of astrophysicists and astronomers has developed a new method for detecting galaxies of stars that formed during the first 180 million...