A vast, flat sheet of dark matter may solve the long-standing mystery of why our neighboring galaxy Andromeda is speeding ...

For more than a century, astronomers have watched in astonishment as the Andromeda galaxy ignored the grand flow of cosmic expansion and hurtled straight toward the Milky Way. While almost every other ...

You might think galaxies can’t ever find each other in our runaway cosmos, but it turns out gravity can sometimes overcome ...

This idea is called the big bang model—which is an unfortunate name because it brings to mind a cosmos expanding like an ...

For years, astronomers have observed the strange motion of Andromeda, the Milky Way’s closest large galactic neighbor. While ...

A star in the Andromeda Galaxy has inexplicably vanished, leaving behind a puzzling red light source that is baffling astronomers.

Durham also contributes to the Vera Rubin Observatory’s Legacy Survey of Space and Time, helping manage its vast data and ...

Three billion years after the Big Bang, a massive galaxy already looked like it had run out of time. It spun in a calm, orderly disc, yet it had largely stopped making new stars. With the help of the ...

We're likely just weeks away from the arrival of Samsung's Galaxy S26, Galaxy S26 Plus and Galaxy S26 Ultra. Here's everything we know so far. I started my career with CNET all the way back in 2005, ...

Radio telescopes let you study the universe by collecting faint radio waves from distant objects. To see extremely small targets, such as the regions around supermassive black holes, those telescopes ...

Because it takes time for light to travel large distances, the quintet's collision in the far-off reaches of space happened when the universe was just 800 million years old. Such a five-way merger ...