Astronomers have detected ordered magnetic fields in galaxies so young that conventional models struggle to explain how those fields formed so fast. Observations from the Atacama Large ...

What Looked Like a Planet Was Actually a Massive Space Collision So, imagine astronomers are looking at something, thinking, ‘Wow, cool planet!’ Then, bam! Turns out it wasn’t a planet at all, but a ...

How fast can a galaxy build ordered magnetic fields spanning thousands of light-years? Existing theories say several billion years, but observations of galaxies in our universe imply shorter ...

A nearby galaxy is undergoing a major transformation, and astronomers are watching the process unfold in real time ...

The late Vincent A. Musetto’s 1983 New York Post front-page crime-story zinger “Headless Body in Topless Bar” remains the ...

Using a novel technique that examines the motion of two nearby galaxy groups within their surrounding cosmic flow, an international team led by David Benisty of the Leibniz Institute for Astrophysics ...

T he first time I heard about galaxies without dark matter, I was sitting in my very first graduate class at the University of São Paulo. It was 2018, and the discovery had just ...

Light emitted from a spiral galaxy during the Tyrannosaurus rex era was captured in a striking photo by the James Webb Space ...

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, ...

GRB 230906A, a short gamma-ray burst first detected in 2023, points to a faint galaxy embedded within a long stream of torn ...

Credit: NASA/ESA Spring is almost here, which means it's galaxy season for amateur astronomers! Grab your telescope and join ...

Scientists have uncovered evidence that our Sun may have traveled across the Milky Way as part of a massive migration of ...