The Milky Way could have many more satellite galaxies than scientists have previously been able to predict or observe, ...

Astronomers have turned the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) into a time machine to peer back in cosmic time to 1 billion years after the Big Bang.

A recent study published in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society reveals the discovery of the most distant ...

Astronomers have used the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) to peer into the early universe and uncover the ...

Understanding how the universe transitioned from darkness to the emergence of stars marks a critical shift known as Cosmic ...

Scientists are still trying to understand how galaxies formed and evolved from primordial gas clouds into the organized ...

Six years ago, a Dutch-led telescope on the Chinese Chang’e-4 demonstrated that it is possible to do radio astronomy from ...

One fascinating discovery was the detection of vast clouds of gas extending far beyond the main star-forming regions. These ...

Population III (PopIII) stars represent astronomy’s ultimate prize are the first generation of stars born from the pristine ...

RIT researchers will be co-investigators on nine of NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope Cycle 4 programs set to begin in early ...

SPHEREx is scanning the entire sky in 102 infrared colors, beaming weekly data to a public archive so scientists and citizen ...

Matter in intergalactic space is not randomly scattered - it forms a vast network of filamentary structures that make up the ...