Astounding simulation shows magnetic fields create fluffy, not flat, accretion disks around supermassive black holes, ...

Scientists estimate a 27% chance of intelligent alien life beyond our galaxy using a new model. The research integrates the ...

Hubble captures the aftermath of the Large Magellanic Cloud’s dramatic encounter with the Milky Way, revealing the loss of ...

Encounter Blew Away Most of Smaller Galaxy's Gaseous Halo In a dramatic tale of survival captured by the Hubble Space ...

The James Webb Space Telescope and the Hubble Space Telescope recently released a chilling view of two spiral galaxies, IC ...

This is perhaps best encapsulated in a Walt Whitman poem titled “When I Heard the Learn’d Astronomer.” The narrator describes ...

Cosmologists are unraveling a perplexing mystery: the universe appears to be expanding faster than predicted. Known as the ...

How the universe got its large magnetic fields has remained one of the stickiest outstanding problems in astrophysics. Now, ...

It was studied along with other galaxies like the nearby NGC 3109, shown above, to learn how galaxies form, as part of a project called The VLT Survey Telescope Survey of Mass Assembly and Structural ...

Earth, between sweltering Venus and frozen Mars, formed and orbits within a band where water could persist in solid, liquid, and gaseous phases. Mars had surface water, but not as much as Earth, and ...

New research reveals how supermassive black holes halt star formation, shedding light on galaxy evolution in the early ...