Researchers have identified a potential mechanism that explains how turbulent plasma can produce the vast, ordered magnetic fields observed across the universe Cosmic magnetic fields are everywhere, ...

Astronomers produced the most complete map of the center of the Milky Way, which can provide insight into how stars and ...

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Despite significant scientific advancement over the last decades, the universe still finds new ways to surprise us. Every ...

It is one of the most famous questions in science, and it was asked, as legend has it, over lunch. Enrico Fermi, the ...

A galaxy made almost entirely of dark matter, an elusive form of matter that doesn’t interact with light, was spotted by Hubble 250 million light-years from Earth.

Astronomers witnessed planets colliding 11,000 light-years away, an event that could shed light on the collision that created Earth's moon.

Astronomers have caught what may be a rare cosmic catastrophe unfolding 11,000 light-years away. A seemingly ordinary ...

One third of the galaxy’s entire stellar output is locked away in just a few dense balls of stars. The rest is just a thin, cold “field” of stars barely clinging to existence. It is, for all intents ...

Dark matter doesn’t emit, absorb, or reflect light. It’s invisible but supposedly makes up 85% of the universe’s mass. Because it’s so abundant, astronomers believe it should explain many unsolved ...

Observations show the universe appears flat, yet its true size and global shape beyond the observable horizon may remain forever unknown.

Deep canyons in the Andes are the perfect location to catch the most energetic particles in the universe. Carlos ...