An international team led by ICREA researcher Mark Gieles, from the Institute of Cosmos Sciences of the University of ...

The rate of star formation in the universe has dropped to just 3 percent of its long-ago peak, and there's no end in sight to the decline, a new study finds. A team of astronomers has determined that ...

The universe's first galaxies were hot messes, according to a recent study. During their younger days, they were wild, ...

The Big Bang theory has dominated our understanding of the universe’s origin for almost 100 years. It describes a moment when ...

At the heart of the Milky Way, just 27,000 light-years from Earth, there is a supermassive black hole with a mass of more ...

A team of researchers at the Institute of Astrophysics of the Canary Islands (IAC) has created a new simulation of early galaxy formation. The simulation allows us to get a fascinating, albeit brief ...

The mystery of how the brightest galaxies in the universe form may soon be solved, as research now suggests they may be powered by prodigious flows of gas. The most luminous galaxies in the universe, ...

Star formation occurring in galaxies just after the Big Bang may not have been as efficient as it is today. Two nearby galaxies have provided windows into galaxy formation in the early universe, ...

Take a look at a wide variety of galaxies in the Universe, and you'll find a vastly different set of stories. The largest ones are giant ellipticals, many of which haven't formed any new stars over ...

A groundbreaking study has provided new insight into the way the first stars were formed at the start of the universe, some 13 billion years ago. Cosmologists suggest that the formation of the first ...