Astronomers studying the Milky Way's oldest stars have estimated that the Universe is about 13.6 billion years old.

The oldest stars in the Milky Way are forcing a fresh look at one of cosmology’s biggest arguments. If some of them are about ...

Elena Tomasetti of the University of Bologna discusses her team's calculation of the estimated age of the universe in an exclusive interview with Starlust.

A groundbreaking study in galactic archaeology proves the Sun made a treacherous journey to reach its current home in the ...

Researchers from the University of Bologna and the Leibniz Institute for Astrophysics Potsdam (AIP) along with other institutes have proposed a new way to address the Hubble tension by comparing ...

Astronomers from UCT have uncovered the true scale of one of the largest hidden structures in the nearby Universe.

Super galaxy clusters are among the largest structures in the universe. Now, a particularly large one has been measured, ...

A sweeping new ALMA image has peeled back the veil on the Milky Way’s core, exposing a dense network of cold gas filaments ...

A new photo taken by the world's most powerful telescope shows a 6-quadrillion-kilometre span of our galaxy.

Astronomers said in a statement that the enormous concentration of galaxies had long remained largely hidden behind dense ...

It turns out that looming collision between our Milky Way and Andromeda galaxies might not happen after all. Astronomers reported Monday that the probability of the two spiral galaxies colliding is ...