An international team of scientists led by the Institute of Cosmos Sciences at the University of Barcelona (ICCUB) and the ...

The distribution of normal matter precisely determines gravitational acceleration in all common types of galaxies, a team led by Case Western Reserve University researchers reports. The team has shown ...

The vastness of space allows for a huge variety of structures to pop up all over the place. Even things we think of as one-and-done objects—like galaxies—come in quite a few shapes and sizes. Follow ...

Astronomers have puzzled for decades over how massive elliptical galaxies appeared so early in cosmic history. The standard ...

A multifractal spectrum called a weighted Cantor set model can describe how galaxies cluster, which is similar to other ...

In research published today, Australian scientists have taken a critical step towards understanding why different types of galaxies exist throughout the universe. The research, made possible by ...

The existence of massive, elliptical galaxies in the early universe has puzzled astronomers for two decades. An international ...