A new image from the Hubble Space Telescope shows a cosmic cloudscape, with clouds of dust and gas swirling in beautiful colors.
A cosmic filament, 3 million light-years long, has been directly imaged for the first time — offering a new glimpse into the ...
New data reveals a 3-million-light-year filament connecting two galaxies, each of which hosts a supermassive black hole.
A different type of stellar explosion can occur when a white dwarf absorbs enough material from a companion star or collides with another star. When either happens, nuclear fusion begins again on ...
Astronomers at the Zwicky Transient Facility (ZTF) in California have analyzed nearly 4,000 white dwarf explosions observed between March 2018 and December 2020, revealing an unexpected variety in how ...
The cosmic web's structure isn't random. It's shaped by dark matter, the mysterious entity that accounts for 85% of all the matter in the universe.Dark matter is heavy and doesn't interact with ...
Researchers conduct final inspections on a neutrino Detection Unit (DU) aboard a research vessel to the seafloor in the Mediterranean Sea in this undated handout image ...