In 1920, astronomers Harlow Shapley and Heber Curtis held a Great Debate. Shapley argued that the spiral nebulae were small and in the Milky Way, while Curtis took a more radical position that they ...
Astronomers have made an extraordinary discovery ... This finding challenges current theories of black hole growth and ...
Researchers have identified a galaxy that existed when the universe was less than 300 million years old. This galaxy, known ...
Simulated stellar explosions show that massive early stars could have created plentiful water for future stars and planets to ...
We don’t know for sure, but the answer is inextricably linked to the moment when water first materialized in the cosmos — and ...
Astronomers have spotted a young, blazing black hole that was already growing at a furious pace just one billion years after ...
Water was present just a couple hundred million years after the Big Bang, according to a new study, shaking up the timeline ...
A fresh look at past data reveals that exoplanets with masses similar to Jupiter formed much sooner than previously thought, ...
University of Arizona astronomers have learned more about a surprisingly mature galaxy that existed when the universe was ...