"All the odd shapes and swirling gas observed in the Perseus cluster now make sense," said astronomer James Lee.

The KU team is seeking public participation in determining the shapes of galaxies and looking for galaxy mergers. Any member ...

By mapping the brightest explosions in the universe, scientists may have uncovered a megastructure that defies our ...

NGC 6355 has been imaged using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope. The globular cluster of stars lies 50,000 light-years away.

An international team of astronomers has solved one of the longstanding cosmic mysteries by uncovering direct evidence of a ...

A team has revealed new insights into the motion of massive stars in the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC), a small galaxy neighboring the Milky Way. Their findings suggest that the gravitational pull of ...

They have mapped out many different cosmological phenomena—galaxies, galaxy clusters, and supernovae—giving them insight into different chapters of the universe’s overall structure and growth. The ...

However, clusters of additives often used by industry in certain food categories may be more harmful when eaten together than alone, according to a new study which found two such mixtures linked ...

The Fornax Cluster is a, well, cluster of galaxies that sit some 65 million light-years from Earth and has been a huge source of galaxy discoveries in the past. In this case, data from multiple ...

The Chandra X-ray Observatory view of galaxy group NGC 4839 has revealed that it is "plunging into the Coma galaxy cluster and leaving behind an extraordinary tail of superheated gas," according ...