Galaxies, Stars, & Black Holes Research

Scientists using observations from NASA’s Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory have discovered, for the first time, the signal from a pair…

Stare deeply at these galaxies. They appear as if blood is pumping through the top of a flesh-free face. The…

It got called the crisis in cosmology. But now astronomers can explain some surprising recent discoveries. When astronomers got their…

Today, enormous stretches of space are crystal clear, but that wasn’t always the case. During its infancy, the universe was…

This graphic shows a three-dimensional map of stars near the Sun. These stars are close enough that they could be…

Researchers are diving into a synthetic universe to help us better understand the real one. Using supercomputers at the U.S.…