Pfalzner's models show that interstellar objects — bodies ejected from other star systems — could be captured by these planet ...

Globular clusters are dense groups of hundreds of thousands to millions of stars that orbit galaxies such as the Milky Way.

Webb telescope found 12 black holes from 12.9B years ago, suggesting supermassive black holes shaped the growth of the ...

Faint hydrogen signals from the cosmic Dark Ages may soon help determine the mass of dark matter particles. Simulations suggest future Moon-based observatories could distinguish between warm and cold ...

In the universe, how gas is gradually transported from large scales to small scales to form an accretion disk around massive ...

The early Universe hosted ultra-weak magnetic fields that still shaped cosmic structures. New simulations establish stricter limits on their strength. Magnetic fields that originated during the earlie ...

Astronomers using the Webb Telescope may have found a new type of object: cold, glowing black hole stars from the early ...

Signals from the universe infancy is something that many people have tried to unveil, but it was only recently that someone ...

Is there a scientific reason why the universe exists? In other words, what is the science of why there is anything at all, ...

Scientists have discovered a giant black hole that they believe may have been formed in the first few microseconds after the ...

Among the most fundamental questions in astronomy is: How did the first stars and galaxies form? NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope is already providing new insights into this question. One of the ...

A collaborative team has revealed new observational evidence that sheds light on the mystery of massive star formation. Researchers from Yunnan University, the Shanghai Astronomical Observatory of the ...