Planet formation used to sound straightforward: dust clumps into rocks, rocks grow into worlds, and the rest is detail. A ...

Astronomers have confirmed the earliest barred spiral galaxy in the universe, a Milky-Way-like structure that existed just 2 ...

University of Chicago astronomy and astrophysics professor Donald G. York​, who is credited with pioneering contributions to ...

The latest generation of astronomy algorithms is not just cataloguing stars and galaxies, it is learning the hidden rules ...

When my colleagues and I send them out to explore our solar system, it's important for us to understand the 3D map of our ...

New research presented at an astronomy meeting shows that active black holes are more common in dwarf galaxies than earlier studies suggested, based on a large survey of nearby galaxies.

MeerKAT radio telescope discovers 49 hidden galaxies in less than three hours, revealing how much of the nearby universe ...

An international team of astronomers, including researchers from the Department of Physics at The University of Hong Kong ...

These remote areas of the United States are all far away from light pollution, are DarkSky certified, and some may even give ...

Donald G. York, an astronomer with the University of Chicago who helped revolutionize the field as a co-founder of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey and made pioneering contributions to the study of the ...

If dark stars existed, they would have been capable of forming in the universe before ordinary stars could have formed. When ...

New observations from the James Webb Space Telescope have revealed unexpected features in the early universe, including ...