What would you do if you woke up on a spaceship light-years from Earth without knowing why you're there? Based on the New ...

Euclid’s first deep-field survey has captured 26 million galaxies, some over 10 billion light-years away, offering a preview of its mission to chart a third of the sky in stunning detail. AI and ...

A nearby galaxy is behaving strangely—and now scientists know why. The Small Magellanic Cloud’s stars move in chaotic ...

“You build these machines not to confirm the paradigm but to break it,” European Space Agency senior science and exploration adviser Mark McCaughrean said. This logic underlies the iconoclastic ...

The jellyfish galaxy in question. The dashed circles mark the four extra-planar sources that are identified in the galaxy’s tail. Credit: The Astrophysical Journal. Astronomers ...

hat MoM-z14 could be home to supermassive stars, something that has long been predicted but not widely observed directly. The chemical composition of MoM-z14 resembles that of ancient globular ...

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While nearly all massive galaxies possess central black holes, the presence of such black holes in dwarf galaxies remains an open question, with previous estimates identifying them in only 0.5% of ...

The first images from the Vera C. Rubin Observatory showed off a breathtaking preview of its capabilities — capturing millions of stars and galaxies light-years from Earth, along with thousands of ...

T he first time I heard about galaxies without dark matter, I was sitting in my very first graduate class at the University of São Paulo. It was 2018, and the discovery had just ...

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Humanity has always been fascinated by space. We are able to see the universe with breathtaking clarity because of NASA's powerful telescopes. Astronomers have been able to take pictures of galaxies ...