The IllustrusTNG Project has created a large and detailed simulation of the Universe. It's helping us answer some important questions…
Galaxies have a natural life cycle, which began shortly after the Big Bang and will likely continue for several trillion…
For decades astronomers have puzzled over the many details concerning the formation of the Milky Way Galaxy. Now a group…
Nobody likes a sloppy COSMOS (Cosmological Evolution Survey) and astronomers utilizing the Fiber-Multi-Object Spectrograph (FMOS) mounted on the Subaru Telescope…
A giant spiral of gas dust and stars, Messier 101 spans 170,000 light-years and contains more than a trillion stars.…
Caption: New research using data from European Southern Observatory telescopes, including the Very Large Telescope, has revealed that the hottest…
[/caption] Got a teenager? Then you know the story. Go to look for your favorite bag of chips and they're…
[/caption] Located some 10.5 billion light years away in the general direction of the constellation of Leo, the most distant…
[/caption] The sprawling northern constellation of Draco is home to a monumental galactic merger which left a singular spectacle -…
[/caption] Score another first for NASA's Hubble Space Telescope! Along with observations taken with the Swift X-ray telescope, a team…