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University of Oxford Press Release Credit: Photo credit: National Ignition Facility Operations team University of Oxford Press Release The inner ...

Galaxies rarely live alone. Instead, dozens to thousands are drawn together by gravity, forming vast clusters that are the largest ...

Locked in an epic cosmic waltz 9 billion light years away, two supermassive black holes appear to be orbiting around ...

A spectacular head-on collision between two galaxies fueled the unusual triangular-shaped star-birthing frenzy, as captured in a new image from ...

TROY, N.Y. — Astrophysicists for the first time have calculated the original mass and size of a dwarf galaxy that ...

Astronomers discovered a black hole unlike any other. At one hundred thousand solar masses, it is smaller than the black holes we ...

Often portrayed as destructive monsters that hold light captive, black holes take on a less villainous role in the latest ...

A survey completed using a combination of ground and space-based telescopes yielded a treasure trove of previously unknown globular clusters – ...

FORT DAVIS, Texas — Astronomers at The University of Texas at Austin’s McDonald Observatory have discovered an unusually massive black ...

SAN ANTONIO — Nov. 22, 2021 — A new study led by Southwest Research Institute determined the brightness of the ...

Scientists warn, without good biosecurity measures ‘alien organisms’ on Earth may become a reality stranger than fiction.Credit: iStock image by ...

A husband-and-wife team of astronomers at The University of Toledo joined forces for the first time in their scientific careers ...

Using the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope (ESO’s VLT), astronomers have discovered a small black hole outside the Milky ...

FRANKFURT. The galaxy Messier 87 (M87) is located 55 million light years away from Earth in the Virgo constellation. It ...

A new discovery is shedding light on how fluorine — an element found in our bones and teeth as fluoride ...

Water has been detected in the most massive galaxy in the early Universe, according to new observations from the Atacama ...

Even galaxies don't like to be alone. While astronomers have known for a while that galaxies tend to congregate in ...

New images have revealed detailed clues about how the first stars and structures were  formed in the Universe and suggest the formation of the Galaxy got off to a fitful start. Credit: ...

Hubble Space Telescope's glamour shots of the universe are so revealing they nearly always have a discovery behind them.Credit: Saurabh ...