Discover the power of black holes and their jets, and how they impact the formation of stars and potentially habitable worlds ...

A team has revealed new insights into the motion of massive stars in the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC), a small galaxy neighboring the Milky Way. Their findings suggest that the gravitational pull of ...

Galaxies may not be as simple as "young and blue" or "old and red." A new idea from astrophysicist Charles Steinhardt proposes a third type: red star-forming galaxies that break the mold. These galaxi ...

"We were surprised by the streams of light that were visible near the center of the galaxies, as nothing similar has been ...

An analysis of star movements from the Gaia spacecraft reveals that the Small Magellanic Cloud — a satellite galaxy bound to ...

The universe doesn't come with an instruction manual—but if it did, University of Missouri Assistant Professor Charles ...

"A supercomputer simulation shows many galaxies merging over time. The parts of galaxies we can see are glowing stars forming ...

Euclid, a European space telescope, just captured 26 million galaxies to reveal the secrets of the dark universe. The Euclid Space Telescope is focused on surveying about one-third of the night ...

The huge "city-killer" asteroid scientists feared would hit Earth may now smash into the Moon instead, according to experts. The 100-metre wide rock, named 2024 YR4, once had a 3.1 per cent ...

ESA’s Euclid captured 26 million galaxies in a week, revealing dark matter and cosmic structures. AI and citizen science uncovered 500 new gravitational lenses.

One of the most powerful objects in the universe is a radio quasar—a spinning black hole spraying out highly energetic ...