Scientists Just Solved a Cosmic Mystery

"By putting together the individual results, like in a puzzle, we reconstruct the formation history of these systems." ...
and super-clusters, are firmly in dark matter's grip. American astronomer Vera Rubin played a huge role in our modern ...
incredibly massive collections of galaxies and galaxy clusters in the universe. The most striking example of these 662 new superclusters is located around 3 billion light-years away from Earth ...
The core of a massive cluster of galaxies appears to be pumping out far more stars than it should. Now researchers at MIT and elsewhere have discovered a key ingredient within the cluster that ...
A new study presents a compelling new model for the formation of super-Earths and mini-Neptunes -- planets that are 1 to 4 times the size of Earth and among the most common in our galaxy. Using ...
Galaxies and clusters are the ensembles of stars and other astronomical objects bound together by gravitational forces. Galaxies are ordered into galaxy groups, which are in turn organised ...