Galaxies are not islands in the cosmos. While globally the universe expands—driven by the mysterious "dark energy"—locally, ...

A new effort to map the rumblings in spacetime caused by enormous black hole collisions paints a surprisingly loud and ...

Using the VLT Survey Telescope (VST), astronomers from Italy and Germany have observed a group of galaxies designated NGC ...

And now in Skeleton Crew, 25 years after The Phantom Menace, Star Wars is once again redrawing the map of the galaxy. But this time, the details of the Old Republic are more mysterious than ever.

Jan. 11, 2024 — A team of astronomers has created the first-ever map of magnetic field structures within a spiral arm of our Milky Way galaxy. Previous studies on galactic magnetic fields only ...

Scientists have confirmed earlier reports that the fabric of the universe is constantly vibrating. The background rumble is ...