The cosmic microwave background (CMB) is a faint glow in the universe dating back to roughly 380,000 years after the Big Bang ...

Regional specializations have always existed in China. Tailors from the city of Cixi, for instance, controlled clothing manufacturing in Beijing for some 250 years. Now China has taken the idea to a ...

The universe is more than a smattering of distant stars—it’s also chock-full of other worlds. But if the universe is so crowded, where is the alien life? While there are many theories addressing this ...

The history of how stars and galaxies came to be and evolved into the present day remains among the most challenging astrophysical questions to solve yet, but new research brings us closer to ...

Galaxies and clusters are the ensembles of stars and other astronomical objects bound together by gravitational forces. Galaxies are ordered into galaxy groups, which are in turn organised into ...

An international team led by ICREA researcher Mark Gieles, from the Institute of Cosmos Sciences of the University of Barcelona (ICCUB) and the Institute of Space Studies of Catalonia (IEEC), has ...

A common belief among astronomers is that galaxy groups and clusters differ mainly in the number of galaxies they contain—there are fewer galaxies in groups and more in clusters. Led by Maret Einasto, ...

An international team of astronomers has discovered 96 open star clusters hidden by dust in our Milky Way galaxy. These faint objects – clusters of stars that were born together and still moving ...