In 1920, astronomers Harlow Shapley and Heber Curtis held a Great Debate. Shapley argued that the spiral nebulae were small and in the Milky Way, while Curtis took a more radical position that they ...

New findings explain the Phoenix cluster's mysterious starburst. Data confirm the cluster is actively cooling and able to generate a huge amount of stellar fuel on its own.

Called Torque Clustering, this method could pave the way for truly autonomous AI. Unlike traditional methods that rely on ...

About every 10 minutes, it seems, a new article about a "revolutionary breakthrough" in AI hits my screen. A new approach, a ...

Predictions are uncertain, but the solar system may be pushed farther from the galactic core or even ejected entirely from ...

LISA is set to revolutionize our understanding of the gravitational universe and the interactions that make the entire cosmos ...

A small blue dwarf galaxy passed through the massive Bullseye galaxy. This impact created nine rings of new stars.

NASA released six stunning images from the Hubble Telescope showcasing interacting galaxies, including the chaotic beauty of ...

Was a powerful cosmic explosion seen by the Einstein Probe launched by a supermassive black hole snacking on a star, by a gamma-ray burst, or by something entirely new?

The Hubble Space Telescope has captured this striking image of an unusual galaxy with a bullseye structure, as nine rings ...

Scientists have discovered that some supermassive black holes rotate much more rapidly than expected. The discovery came as ...

In the heart of our Milky Way galaxy, two gigantic "bubbles" extend roughly 50,000 light-years above and below the galactic ...