Tagged: galaxy

Talk about a galaxy far, far away. Astronomers believe they may have discovered the furthest galaxy from Earth, more than 13 billion light-years away from our planet, according to a newly published study. The research, published in the journal Nature Astronomy, discusses the discovery of...

A mission from NASA has discovered there may be a lot fewer galaxies than initially believed, opening up the possibility humanity is alone in the universe. The New Horizons mission, which yielded the first close-up photos of Pluto, provided enough data for scientists to make...

Researchers have discovered a new “monster” galaxy that grew at a high rate during the early part of the universe. However, it died mysteriously, baffling researchers. The newly-discovered galaxy is known as XMM-2599 and is approximately 12 billion light-years from Earth. The universe itself is...

Astronomers have detected the magnetic field of a galaxy located a whopping 5 billion light-years from Earth. “This finding is exciting,” Sui Ann Mao, an astronomer from the Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy in Germany, said in a statement. “It is now the record...

A sausage-shaped galaxy smashed into our own Milky Way billions of years ago, changing our galaxy’s shape forever. Using data from the European Space Agency’s Gaia satellite, an international team of astronomers has discovered that an ancient, intergalactic collision took place between the Milky Way...

Astronomers from Pennsylvania State University (PSU) have scrutinized 100,000 galaxies for signs of life – the most exhaustive such study ever undertaken – and recently published their results in the prestigious Astrophysical Journal. What did they find? Nothing. Nada. Nichts. Score one more failure for...

The “king of the monsters” has been found in deep space. NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has discovered a massive galaxy known as UGC 285, 232 million light-years from Earth, that could be nicknamed the “Godzilla galaxy” due to its massive size. It is 2.5 times...

Mars or Jupiter’s moon Europa samples will be contained forever as they pose a risk to humans. DANGEROUS alien bugs hitching a ride back to Earth on returning space crafts should be locked away forever, a leading scientist has said. Rock and ice samples brought...

NASA announced today that it had validated the existence of 1,284 new planets in our galaxy that are outside of our solar system— bodies known as exoplanets— and that of those, nine are small planets located in what the space agency calls the “habitable zone.”...

Back in 2017, a gravitational wave rang across Earth like the clear tone of a bell. It stretched and squished every person, ant and scientific instrument on the planet as it passed through our region of space. Now, researchers have gone back and studied that...