An international team of scientists led by the Institute of Cosmos Sciences at the University of Barcelona (ICCUB) and the ...

Using the James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers have investigated 70 dusty galaxies at the very edge of the universe that ...

Using the Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers have discovered what seems to be a galaxy that is the most heavily dominated by ...

In the northwest section of Ursa Major the Great Bear sits the magnificent spiral galaxy M81 (NGC 3031). At magnitude 6.9, ...

An international team of scientists led by the Institute of Cosmos Sciences at the University of Barcelona (ICCUB) and the ...

A team of 48 astronomers from 14 countries, led by the University of Massachusetts Amherst, has discovered a population of dusty, star-forming galaxies at the far edges of the universe that formed ...

In the very young universe, just a fraction of its current age, astronomers have stumbled on a set of objects that refuse to behave the way galaxies are supposed to. Compact, brilliant and oddly ...

How space telescopes capture distant galaxies using infrared imaging, precision optics, and astronomy technology beyond Earth's atmosphere.

Galaxy dynamics are confronted with one of the deepest problems of modern physics: the dark matter problem. The motions of stars and gas observed exceed what can be explained by the mass visible in ...

Deep inside a nearby galaxy, a black hole sits behind a thick wall of dust. Almost all its light gets trapped.

An international team of scientists led by the Institute of Cosmos Sciences at the University of Barcelona (ICCUB) and the Institute of Space Studies ...

Galaxies are massive, far exceeding the size of the one depicted in the movie “Men in Black.” These celestial bodies span ...